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

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

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.

Luigi Rovati Foundation is offering a talk titled "Women and Ruins: Archaeology, Photography, and Landscape." Friday, October ...

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 ...

At the beginning of his pontificate, Leo declared himself to be a “son of St. Augustine.” He also committed himself to ...

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