Study challenges long-standing beliefs about the Mediterranean Phoenician-Punic civilization, a culture recognized as one of ...

Samuel Johnson was an English author and lexicographer who lived between the years of 1709 and 1784. He is best remembered by ...

With Pope Leo XIV now leading the Church, there’s a quiet hopefulness in the air of renewal, of fresh energy. But the ...

Strolling along the river, we admired the graceful arches of Pont de la Guillotière, the oldest bridge in Lyon, and the ...

However, we can say the island really got on the map when it was settled in the mid-7th Century BCE ... After the second such conflict, the Roman Republic was triumphant and, eventually, in 123 BCE, ...

An earthquake in Croatia led to the discovery of an ancient Roman theater in Sisak, according to officials. The theater's ...

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While the quantity and distribution of these mysterious objects suggests they were an important part of Roman culture, they are not mentioned in any surviving ancient texts or artworks.

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I was surprised at David Brooks’s reductive binary between pagans and Judeo-Christians. He depicts the Romans in a simplistic ...

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