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 ...

India celebrated her 77th Republic Day on Monday, with the parade also marking 150 years of Vande Mataram, iconic anthem written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay ...

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

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 ...

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

As the world gathers in the Italian Alps for sport’s greatest winter celebration, we are once again challenged - not only to ...

Alissa Greenberg is an independent journalist based in San Francisco and Boston who specializes in science, culture, travel, ...

In this unusually eventful — mostly not in good ways — year for higher education, it’s salutary to be reminded how much good ...

Researchers tell ‘human story’ about crisis during plague of Justinian, which killed millions in Byzantine empire ...

National sovereignty is a phrase that before President Donald Trump brought it into question with headline-grabbing shenanigans on Venezuela, Iran and Greenland among other places was seldom heard ...

Now and then, certain concepts gain notoriety and especially in the age of social media, they quickly become buzzwords. The ...