Roman religion both reflected and regulated sexual mores, with the male-female duality enshrined in the pairings of the twelve Dii Consentes, or major gods (the counterparts of the Greek Olympian ...

Ready to ditch the dating apps? Try loitering outside a courthouse instead - it’s one of many tips the ancient Greeks and Romans had for finding love.

Nymphs offer us more than just stories of sexy nature spirits. They can reveal how ancient people thought about their world ...

Historian Tom Holland uncovers how politics, myth and maternal ambition collided in the scandalous reign of the Roman emperor ...

Gods, kings and numbers are involved What’s in a name? Have you ever wondered about the origins of month names? Some months, like October and December, are fairly easy to figure out. The precise ...

(CNN) — Ancient DNA is spilling more secrets about the Avars, a fearsome people who built a mysterious empire that ruled much of Central and Eastern Europe for 250 years from the mid-sixth century.