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During earthquake repairs, a Roman theater was discovered beneath the town hall of Sisak, Croatia, revealing more about the ...
Tourism is surging in many places around the world—swarmed national parks, throngs of visitors amassing in churches and ...
Roman society was, in many ways, surprisingly sophisticated. It built remarkable things like aqueducts that snaked over long ...
Is the Roman Empire on your mind? If so, France should be on your list of must-visit destinations! Having been inhabited by ...
According to Roman mythology, what was the origin of the Latin alphabet? What was its alleged connection to the script of the Greeks?
A recent archaeological excavation in Switzerland turned morbid when historians came across a trove of infant burials dating back to Ancient Rome ... still unsure what they were used for.
Mystery cruises are a growing trend. One writer embarked on one to see what the draw is and where it would sail.
I find that really fascinating.” Currently a chef at the Tavern at Heathman, Alexander has worked at a wide range of Portland ...
Before Instagram trends and DNA-based diets, Greek and Roman physicians ... in what we might call the Mediterranean diet—olive oil, fish, vegetables, and grains—an ancient person’s diet ...
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What Was the Polis?
For the Greeks, the idea was a fluid one—a literal place and a civic ideal that allowed for democracy to flourish.
Presiding over a Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, Leo was inaugurated as the first American pope, in a ceremony filled with ancient and ... the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church ...
Jewish Ritual Bath: Archaeologists uncovered what may be the oldest existing example in the ancient Roman world of a mikvah. They have tentatively ... people in what we today call Honduras made ...