A recent paper analyses legal documents from the Roman empire that detail the prosecution of a tax evasion case on papyrus.

When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

The Kingdom of Thessalonica was a short-lived state that emerged during the Fourth Crusade after the sack of Constantinople in 1204.

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

A ccording to a recent study, the Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA), a climate crisis in the 6th century lasting 200 to 300 ...

Actor Peter Weller on the politics of "RoboCop," jazz and the importance of kindness and spirituality in hard times ...

acquired a 22-foot-long medieval scroll portraying a map of the world, from the Atlantic to the mouth of the Ganges, as it existed during the Roman Empire. The map's origins were obscure ...

For the first time, an archaeological investigation has conclusively documented the existence of a brückenkopfkastell—a Roman ...

Roman museums are among the most elegantly designed of any in the world and its ... from every corner of the empire—professors from Greece, courtesans from Parthia (modern Iraq), slaves from ...

Francis has led the Roman Catholic church since Benedict XVI ... south, east and west (see map 1). This method traces the Church’s complex history. The statistical centre started in the hills ...

The Phoenicians developed their ancient civilization with profits from the lucrative maritime trade of the Mediterranean.

The remains of an ancient city named Lyncus, the capital of the Kingdom of Lyncestis, may have been discovered in […] ...