The UK is home to some incredible market towns. Some are really well known, while others seem to constantly remain under the radar. One such town is located in the heart of Norfolk. Among many things, ...

The largest libraries of the ancient world weren’t mere book collections. They were centers of power, education, and survival across empires.

Almost 1800 years after Rome’s founding, the people we call Byzantines still thought of themselves as part of the same enduring society.

In “Goliath’s Curse,” Luke Kemp crunches the numbers to see exactly how far we are from the fate of once-great empires.

Recently, more and more foreign authors have been turning to ancient Greece to get inspiration for their novels.

A Rome native once described as “one of the most puzzling and fascinating figures in modern Georgia history” is the subject of a new biography. “Brilliant Oddball: Colonel Telamon Cuyler, ...

This article was originally published on mentalfloss.com as How to Keep a Commonplace Book: The Renaissance-Era Practice That's Making a Comeback. If you want to start journaling, a commonplace book ...

At the beginning of his pontificate, Leo declared himself to be a “son of St. Augustine.” He also committed himself to promoting the Church’s “treasury” of social teaching. For an Augustinian pope, ...

These are "incredible times," the great director tells Fortune, "more incredible than anything we ever had in human history." ...

I’m reading it because it’s my book club book. Also rereading The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test for work!” What he’s reading: The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People’s History of Ancient Rome by ...