He was murdered in 217 while among his most trusted soldiers, campaigning in the eastern part of the Roman Empire. According to Beard, “he's assassinated while he's having a pee on the road.” ...

The 8,000-year-old tradition took root in France around the sixth century B.C. when the southern Gauls were settled by the Greeks, later to be encapsulated in the Roman Empire. Now, archaeologists in ...

1️⃣ Super-polluters: A cutting-edge satellite is zooming around Earth 15 times a day, hunting for leaks of methane — an ...

When “desperate families sold their children into slavery for dog meat,” it was more a case of “the dogs are eating the ...

No, the Romans never introduced sharks to the Colosseum.Without giving away too much of the plot of Ridley Scott’s new epic ...

Cecilia in the Roman neighborhood of Trastevere where a famous Baroque sculpture of her still puzzles scholars. According to popular belief, Cecilia was a Roman noblewoman who lived in the third ...

A local official said that during the conflict an Israeli airstrike landed "dangerously close" to Baalbek's UNESCO-listed ...

When historian Erika Graham-Goering checked the number of women who were in power worldwide five years ago, she was surprised ...

Wikimedia When you think of political philosophy, you think of Immanuel Kant, Georg Hegel and Johann Fichte. Both ...

Two brothers, Ngima Tashi Sherpa and Fura Tshering Sherpa, recently did the first ascent of 6,151m Yasa Thak, not far from ...

It's another epic episode of the Empire Podcast this week, folks, as a smorgasbord of stars join us on the pod — all of whom shared the unique privilege of Chris Hewitt's company in person for ...