Rome didn’t become Christian overnight, and pagan life didn’t instantly disappear. For centuries the empire was religiously tolerant, with countless cults and temples operating openly. Even after ...

The calm waters nearSardinia’s northeastern coast concealed an extraordinary archaeological cache until a diver’s chance ...

Yet even after electoral defeats, under Raila, ODM was held tightly together.

Barbarian invasions in Greece during the Byzantine era were common with mostly Albanian tribes settling in the fertile plains ...

The Via Egnatia was an ancient Roman road that ran from the Adriatic Sea to Byzantium, connecting northern ancient Greek ...

The story is told of how the Armenian king Trdat (also known as Tiridates III) was physically transformed into a wild boar as ...

The announcement appeared last week in the calendar of papal liturgies published by the Prefecture of the Pontifical ...

In the early fourth century A.D., Rome was notorious for persecuting Christians. Yet the night before battle, Constantine ...

View of the Arch of Constantine and the Colosseum from the Acqueduct of Claudia, Rome, View of the Temple of Minerva Medica near the Porte Maggiore in Rome, View of the Forum of Nerva in Rome, View of ...

The cultural and scientific revolutions that define the Renaissance were kickstarted in large part by Europe’s rediscovery of lost Roman sculpture. Inspiring the likes of Raphael, Donatello, ...

World-renowned poet Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933), a meticulous artist who left behind 154 carefully composed poems, seems to have readied the world, and many of the historical characters who appear ...

Being a Roman emperor was a risky job. It wasn't unusual for emperors to be killed by usurpers wanting to remove them from power. They also faced many health challenges, such as death from epidemics ...