The election of Pope Leo XIV, the first American Pope, generates interest. Ancient prophecies hint at the Catholic Church's ...

With a highly sought-after setting and a host of welcome changes already showcased, Anno 117: Pax Romana will hopefully scratch that ceaseless itch for those who can’t stop thinking about the Roman ...

Chestnut trees reveal the lasting impact of the Roman Empire on Europe’s landscape, showing how Romans shaped forestry across ...

I was surprised at David Brooks’s reductive binary between pagans and Judeo-Christians. He depicts the Romans in a simplistic ...

Tourism is surging in many places around the world—swarmed national parks, throngs of visitors amassing in churches and ...

The Romans didn’t just export the trees around Europe but also the arboriculture, tree cultivation techniques, that the different civilizations they brought under their control ended up sharing.

A recent archaeological excavation in Switzerland took a somber turn when historians discovered a collection of infant ...

Roman society was, in many ways, surprisingly sophisticated. It built remarkable things like aqueducts that snaked over long ...

A team ventured into the 2,000-year-old structures under a town in Spain and found some unfamiliar-looking animals. Take a ...

An amateur metal detectorist discovered a buried hoard of nearly 1,500 Roman coins near Bucharest, Romania. The coins, which ...