Core elements of Roman law can be traced back to the ancient Greek world. Roman law has been fundamental to the foundations ...

From 180 to 192 C.E., Emperor Commodus ruled ancient Rome with an insatiable lust for power that brought an end to the fabled ...

This city is less touristy than Lisbon and Porto.

Naxos is the largest island of the Cyclades and it is comparatively unknown relative to Greece's many other island idylls.

making it one of the oldest buildings in the entirety of Portugal. According to tradition, it was built to replace an ancient Roman temple dedicated to Asclepius, AKA, the god of medicine and good ...

We asked six horticultural experts to debate and ultimately choose the places that’ve changed the way we look at — and think ...

a powerful Phoenician colony in modern-day Tunisia and one of ancient Rome’s most formidable enemies. Carthaginians were known as “Punic people” to the Romans, and the two civilizations ...

Archaeologists excavating an ancient Roman settlement in the United Kingdom found an oven used for making construction materials, photos show. Photo from Cotswold Archaeology Sifting through the ...

The bizarre episode no doubt puzzled his soldiers as much as it does modern historians. Excerpted with permission from The Shortest History of Ancient Rome, Ross King, Pan Macmillan.

Religious observers see a growing number of people abandoning Christian churches in favour of Indigenous spirituality.

‘One-on-one human battles in Colosseum-type settings were a form of public entertainment in ancient Roman society. Lesion on the left iliac spine of 6DT19 consistent with a big cat bite ...