NEW YORK, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- "Dead Poets Society" and "Training Day" actor Ethan Hawke says he sees the "truthstorian" he ...

Today in History for Sept. 23: In 63 B.C., Roman emperor Augustus Caesar was born.

ALICANTE, SPAIN—The University of Alicante announced that after eight seasons, a team of archaeologists has finished excavations of a vast Roman bath complex at the site of La Alcudia, near the city ...

Pope Leo XIV, with Monsignor Leonardo Sapienza, walks out of the Vatican’s Synod Hall on May 10, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen Pope Leo XIV returned to the Vatican three weeks ago, after a ...

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At the Roman settlement of A Cibdá de Armea in northwestern Spain, archaeologists uncovered evidence suggesting that ancient Romans adorned their amulets with fossils of extinct marine arthropods, ...

History depends on the written word. But how can a historian interpret a text if its authorship or age are uncertain, and indeed some of those words are missing? The problem is not a new one. But ...

The great Roman emperor Augustus, grandnephew of Julius Caesar, was frightened of thunder and fond of virgins, but his most publicized characteristic was opposition to ostentation. He lived, according ...

“Catholicism outlived the Roman Empire. We’ll outlive the American Empire too.” So a Jesuit priest once told me at a pub in New York during my time as an O’Hare fellow at America. Those words have ...

In his victory speech in November, Donald Trump made a promise: And every citizen, I will fight for you, for your family and your future, every single day I will be fighting for you with every breath ...

The way to start a “golden age” is to erect big, beautiful barriers to keep out foreign goods and people. That, at least, is the view of the most powerful man on the planet. Johan Norberg, a Swedish ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. In about 80 years, roughly the same length of time between the end of ...