This little-understood Middle Eastern culture ruled much of modern-day Jordan from the third century B.C. until ... following the breakup of the Roman Empire, Petra became a provincial capital ...

Or they invoke Benito Mussolini, or Viktor Orbán, or Hugo Chavez, or any of a number of other thuggish saboteurs and wreckers ...

Here is a closer look at the family tree of billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch, largely believed to have inspired HBO's ...

When Brooklyn was incorporated as a city in 1834, building a new city hall was high on the list of priorities.

A third-century Chinese text describing Western cultures included a list of treasures that might be extracted from the Roman Empire: ivory, gold, carnelian, pearls, kingfisher feathers.

Her areas of research and teaching include rabbinic literature, the history of Jews in the Roman Empire, the city of Jerusalem ... The first project studies the life and legacy of the first-century ...

His first book, The Son of God in the Roman World: Divine Sonship in Its Social and Political ... the artistic remains of the oldest securely datable church building, from third-century Syria. It was ...

In 1985, a war came to an official end – 2,131 years after its final battle. For centuries during the pre-Christian era, two ...

The games in questions could be either Ludus Latrunculi or Doudecim Scripta, both of which were known board games played with bone pieces by Roman soldiers in the fifth century. Celikbas said both are ...

Experts just found a 3D map that was carved into quartz sandstone likely 13,000 years ago. Located within the famed Segognole ...

Rome has uncovered the four large marble maps illustrating its evolution and expansion, from its foundation to the apex of its empire, hanging on the Via dei Fori, in front of the Colosseum, which had ...

X-rays and AI were used to read charred Roman scrolls untouched for 2,000 years.