Christianity spread across the Roman Empire through persecution, cultural adaptation, and the transformation of pagan beliefs ...

Ridley Scott’s epic historical sequel, Gladiator II promises to be a dramatic and spectacular, if not particularly ...

Excavations at Bagno Grande suggest an Etruscan medical school, revealing evidence of ancient healing practices.

A 2,000-year-old palace in the Republic of Georgia and a 1,500-year-old church in Iraq suggest Zoroastrians coexisted with ...

That’s why Hanukkah is celebrated mainly as the holiday of LIGHTS!! That’s why Jesus was (supposedly) born on that day, as ...

Want to walk in the footsteps of Roman emperors? Now you can because an ancient secret passageway in Rome's Colosseum used exclusively by emperors is now open to the public for the first time since ...

The Roman Empire conjures up images of military power, gladiatorial contests, and feats of engineering, but to the men who ruled, life was complicated and fraught with risk. Julius Caesar, whose power ...

Peter Edwell receives funding from the Australian Research Council. In the third century CE, a new dynasty known as the Sasanians came to power in ancient Iran. Within a few years, the first Sasanian ...

The Israeli version of Saturday Night Live has portrayed U.S. President Donald Trump as a conquering Roman emperor in a wild musical number posted to social media. The Atlantic’s Yair Rosenberg ...

The Israeli comedy sketch show "Eretz Nehederet" (A Wonderful Country) put on this performance featuring President Trump as a conquering Roman Emperor in the wake of the successful ceasefire deal with ...

Theodosius I (also known as Theodosius the Great) lived during the 4th century AD. He was the last Roman emperor to rule over both the eastern and western halves of the Roman Empire. It was during the ...

The Passage of Commodus was used by Roman emperors. Simona Murrone / Colosseum Archaeological Park A secret tunnel in the Colosseum once used by Roman emperors has opened to the public for the first ...