One of the things I never wrapped my head around was how the Roman Republic managed to conquer the mighty city-states and ...

The ruined harbour of Carthage, depicted in the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570) - Alamy By the 14th century, it was well known that all roads led to Rome – or, as Chaucer put it, that “diverse pathes ...

This excellent survey by British historian Spawforth (Greece and the Augustan Cultural Revolution) spans the rise and fall of the Greco-Roman world, from the Aegean city-states that became Greece to ...

New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world.

During the age of emperors, Roman sculpture was of artistic, religious, and political importance, and often took on epic ...

Ancient Greeks prepared Roman gladiators for violent contests, although these were quite different from the Olympics the ...

Greek archaeologists recently uncovered a trove of ancient artifacts while exploring the lost city of Tenea, which legend suggests was built some 3,000 years ago by Trojan prisoners of war. More than ...

LESBOS, Greece — In an emotional visit to a fenced-in refugee center on this Greek island, Pope Francis told hundreds of displaced families Saturday that "you are not alone" — and underscored his ...