Slavery was a core part of life in ancient Rome—for both its economy and society. But when did it actually end? In this video ...

About 2,000 years ago, life in the Roman town of Pompeii—located in modern-day Italy—looked a lot like life anywhere else.

Known through hostile Roman voices and scarred into the ground itself, Boudicca’s revolt was one of the most violent crises Rome ever faced in Britain. Using archaeology alongside ancient texts, this ...

A love note, a gladiatorial combat scene, a barrage of insults and everyday confessions have emerged on a wall in Pompeii, ...

William Sanders Scarborough was an African-American ex-slave who authored a Greek textbook. His First Lessons in Greek ...

Telling a story is a core tradition of Judaism – as we do for Pesach , telling the story every year of the Exodus from Egypt.

The Code of Justinian, a collection of laws compiled by Byzantine Emperor Justinian, is widely regarded as the foundation of Western law.

The 2000s produced multiple cinematic triumphs, with masterpieces like Gladiator and There Will Be Blood redefining what it ...

The project, described by Pompeii officials as Bruits de couloir (“corridor whispers”), used Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), a computational photography technique that photographs a surface ...

The mayor of Suakin dreams of a rebirth for his town, an ancient Red Sea port spared by the wars that have marked Sudan's ...

New archaeological clues are shedding light on the fate of isolated Norse colonies in Greenland that disappeared during the Middle Ages.

From New Year’s Day to Christmas, see every 2026 holiday, federal observance, religious date and seasonal milestone in one ...