Archaeologists recently found a massive stone basin in Italy dating back more than 2,000 years — remnants of a once-powerful ...

The carriage workshop, which also had evidence of fixing horseshoes, was situated along the well-traveled Via Claudia Augusta and offered services to travelers in the first century C.E.

They conquered half the world — but their greatest victories were made of stone, steel, and science. In this journey through ...

The Year of the Four Emperors (69 AD) marked the first brutal civil war of the Roman Empire, plunging the empire into chaos ...

The Corinthian helmet, circa 650-600 B.C., has a rounded top with small openings for the eyes and a distinctive nose-piece. Historian Herodotus mentions the helmet as a defining equipment of the ...

Teachers at nine high schools in northeastern Australia discovered days before an ancient history exam that they had ...

Before they could lay the smackdown in the arena, gladiators were professionally trained, combining a physical regimen with an education in the rules of the ring. Gladiator reenactors pose amid ...

The visual arts can connect gender, sexuality and spirituality and reshape attitudes about LGBTQ life and religion.

Rev. Mark Massa, S.J., will step down from his role as director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life ...

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He died nearly 2,000 years ago in what is now Italy. He was a sailor in the Roman navy, serving on an oar-powered warship called a trireme. He didn't lead a legion, seize a throne or start a new ...