Denzel Washington, soon to return to the Broadway stage with Othello opposite Jake Gyllenhaal, came across a bit of an unforeseen snafu around rehearsals. In a Q&A with the New York Times ahead of the ...

In recent decades, the West has witnessed a growing trend among increasingly hubristic US leaders to proclaim the US as ...

The document is the longest Greek document found in the Judean Desert, spanning over 133 lines of written text.

In several graves, ancient curse tablets known as defixio have been found, calling upon gods to punish various wrongdoers, ...

Excavations at the former Porte Madeleine hospital in Orléans, France, have revealed dozens of burials dating back to the ...

BC was a completely different time in human history. In the Third Servile War, Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator … Continue reading "15+ Facts About Spartacus That Even History Buffs Might Not Know" ...

The world of the Roman Empire was not just one of legions, emperors, and conquests — it was also a world of legal disputes, ...

The Vigiles were Rome’s own firefighters, in charge of reducing fire hazards in the city, as well as street crime.

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

Scientists have deciphered a 1,900-year-old papyrus describing a court process from the time of the Roman occupation of ...

A new discovery from the Roman empire outlines a juicy case of second-century crime. Containing an extraordinary 133 lines of ...