As America begins its 250th year, it is fitting to draw attention to the great people and ideas that made it possible. Neither the Declaration of Independence of 1776 nor the Constitution of 1787 ...

Sarah Bond is a professor of classics at the University of Iowa and the author of Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in ...

Twelve years after the original Spartacus series signed off in a blaze of rebellion and carnage, Spartacus is officially back ...

Starz has unveiled the first images for the spinoff series of Spartacus, while showrunner Steven S. DeKnight explains new ...

Summer is now in full swing, and that means it's a good time to restock your TBR so that you're well-equipped for vacations, ...

We can probably safely assume Rome, in many areas, was likely pretty dirty and rank-smelling. That said, there’s evidence of ...

Bones found at the site of an ancient fish-processing plant were used to genetically identify the species that went into a ...

Since the time of ancient Rome and Greece, people have dealt with love, this difficult emotion, in all its glory and calamity ...

What did the Romans really think about race, identity, and belonging? This episode of the Kings and Generals animated documentary dives into Roman views of ethnicity, citizenship, and imperial ...

DNA obtained from the remains of a man who lived in ancient Egypt around the time the first pyramids were built is providing ...

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...