On August 24, 79 C.E., Mount Vesuvius erupted and encased the nearby Roman city of Pompeii in ash. Today, the city is a time ...

Legendary film director Ridley Scott revealed that he strived for thorough historical accuracy in 'Gladiator II,' the sequel ...

Explore how Nazi ideology appropriated ancient Greece and Plato's philosophy, distorting them to fit their racial and ...

How did the Etruscans, powerful neighbors of Rome, disappear from history? Were they destroyed, or culturally absorbed?

Yet Augustine’s reputation in his own day might give us pause. Born in North Africa in the fourth century C.E., he lived at a time of deep division in the Roman Empire and was often seen as a culture ...

This is part of a running series of essays by Iskander Rehman, entitled “Applied History,” which seeks, through the study of the history of ...

A recently excavated house contains at least four paintings including an artistic depiction of copulation between a satyr and a nymph.

From Venus to Yahweh to Ganesha, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston surveys depictions of divinity through the ages.

The Segovia aqueduct is a bold legacy of Rome's presence in Spain, though no one knows who or when it was built it.

A newly uncovered house in Pompeii, though small, reveals an intricate collection of frescoes that offer a glimpse into the ...

Their version of “Cinderella” or “Rapunzel” could be disturbing. But turning Germany into a unified nation, they believed, ...