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

Ancient historians described them as a people not to be trifled with. Xenophon, the fourth-century B.C. Greek warrior and ... While building a vast empire that included much of present-day Syria ...

British author J. R. R. Tolkien's tale of the fall of Númenor was inspired by the ancient Greek myth of Atlantis.

While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

An entire ancient Egyptian settlement from the New Kingdom, also known as the Golden Age of Egypt, surfaced from beneath Greek ruins at the site of Kom el-Nugus near Alexandria Among the artifacts ...

Thucydides fought in the Peloponnesian War on the Athenian side. His world was steeped in the sensibilities of Greek tragedy, and his historical narrative carries that imprint throughout.

The eastern Basalt Desert was a home of a “very intensive” Christian graffiti production during first three centuries AD.

That image is dead wrong, according to modern scholars. Ancient sculptors were very much interested in color as well as form; the white marble statues we admire looked stunningly different in ...

Pope Francis made a brief appearance on Easter Sunday to bless the thousands of people in St. Peter's Square, drawing cheers ...

Justice Samuel Alito wrote that an overnight order blocking a group of Venezuelans from being deported under a wartime law was not “necessary or appropriate.” Read Justice Alito’s Dissent ...