Across the ancient Mediterranean, few luxury commodities were as prized, rare, and expensive as Tyrian purple, a dye used in ...

As the Catholic Church looks to the future, the next pope will have to build upon Francis’s foundation — he will have to ...

'Ecce Homo' (Behold the Man), by 19th-century painter Antonio Ciseri, depicts Pontius Pilate presenting Jesus to a crowd in Jerusalem. Tungsten/Galleria d'Arte Moderna via Wikimedia Commons ...

Stash of Roman Emperor Coins Found near Tower “To find a coin from 69 A.D. is incredibly rare,” Mark Hannam of Fieldings Auctioneers told the BBC. “Most coins we find in this country are ...

Archaeologists used radiocarbon analysis on artifacts like an iron dagger, lance points, scale armor, and a helmet cheek piece.

In the late Roman Empire, the emperors themselves were gods. Now, as a matter of fact, Ambrose, was, as I mentioned, responsible for the conversion of Saint Augustine. With Saint Augustine we have an ...

Radiocarbon dating traced the bones to approximately A.D. 80 to 234 — a period in which more than a dozen Roman emperors ruled, including Domitian and Trajan, who clashed with ancient Germanic ...

In one post, he compared Trump to “a Roman emperor” who tells other nations what to do. In another, he accused Trump and Vice President JD Vance of insulting and threatening Ukrainian ...

Experts at the Vienna Museum provided a public presentation of the mass grave this week, which had the bodies of more than 100 people.

What Was a Roman Emperor’s Daily Life Like?' Classicist and author Mary Beard sits down with Tristan Hughes in this filmed podcast for the The Ancients podcast to discuss the role of the Roman ...

(CNN) — Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Óscar Arias says he has had his visa to enter the United States revoked. Arias, 84, said he doesn’t know why his visa was ...