Amman, the modern capital of Jordan, has witnessed a remarkable evolution, with its name changing to reflect various ...

One of the fundamental beliefs of the Ancient Greeks was that their beloved gods were immortal, but were they? How did they ...

Although the team obviously can’t tie zircon minerals to the Roman Empire’s collapse, their lengthy migration inside frozen ...

The Citadelum 2.0 update is a free overhaul to the Ancient Rome city builder packed with new resources, buildings, tech, and features.

Christians worldwide will celebrate Palm Sunday, the first of many milestones of Holy Week, the period leading up to Easter and Jesus’ resurrection. This is the Sunday that celebrates Jesus’ triumphal ...

A trio of researchers from Bocconi University, in Italy, the University of Cambridge, in the U.K., and Stanford University, ...

Rome, with a population of around 75 million, had an average income equivalent to about 2.25 times the subsistence minimum — ...

As the Roman Empire expanded and became richer, its wealthy citizens demanded increasing amounts of luxury items, especially ...

On April 6, 1896, the Olympic Games were reborn in Athens, 1,500 years after Roman Emperor Theodosius I banned them in 393 ...

Under a soccer field in a Vienna neighborhood along the Danube River, archaeologists have found a mass grave dating to the era when the Roman Empire was battling Germanic tribes almost 2,000 years ago ...