All autobiography is inherently mendacious, if only by omission and with the intent of protecting the innocent. In ...

More charitably, The Phoenician Scheme is a palate cleanser – a lovely lark, a spirits lifter. The Phoenician Scheme seems ...

and at times they fought as heavy cavalry for the Byzantine Empire (also called the Eastern Roman Empire). Many of the finds were made during excavations in 2023 and 2024 of the "Karabau-2" burial ...

Ceded to Rome in 133 B.C., Hierapolis flourished, reaching its peak of importance in the 2nd and 3rd centuries ... churches became an important religious center for the Eastern Roman Empire. The ...

The modern visitor to the Croatian coastal city of Split marvels at the towering walls of Emperor Diocletian’s Palace, which ...

When the How Often Do You Think About the Roman Empire? meme went viral in 2023, it may have felt like a passing joke — until it became clear that people really do think about it all the time.

Our History editor-in-chief Amy Briggs can explain. How often do the men in your life think about the Roman Empire? Maybe more than you think. They may not wear costumes, like these Catalan actors ...

The roads built by the Romans in Britain continued to be used for both travel and trade in the Middle Ages for more than a thousand years after the fall of the Roman Empire, according to a recent ...

But as the Roman Empire expanded, the presence of sweet chestnut pollen grew. Specifically, the percentage of sweet chestnut pollen relative to other pollen across Europe "shows a pattern of a ...

The upcoming PC game puts players in the role of a new Roman governor during a relatively peaceful 200-year span. Players start out with a single settlement, but they’ll have to expand and build ...