The rise and fall of the publicani of the Roman Empire offers valuable lessons on scalability, adaptability, financial ...

Rome, with a population of around 75 million, had an average income equivalent to about 2.25 times the subsistence minimum — ...

How one navigates and deals with perfidy is one of the questions that Zora Neale Hurston raises in her posthumously published ...

It was the first confirmed meeting since the pope’s return to the Vatican after five weeks in the hospital for life-threatening double pneumonia.

U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern rolled out legislation that would protect the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, as food ...

At Palmyra (an ancient city in what’s now Syria) in the second century CE, an inscription shows 90 million sesterces in goods were imported in just one month. And in the first century BCE, Roman ...

as they looked at the ruins of the Roman Forum, ancient government buildings close to the amphitheatre. Charles is welcomed by President Sergio Mattarella (Victoria Jones/PA) “Still today ...

Although the team obviously can’t tie zircon minerals to the Roman Empire’s collapse, their lengthy migration inside frozen ...

Archaeologists debated the age and purpose of the ruins for years — but not anymore. Take a look at their recent finds.

A new study revealed which ancient empire had the greatest inequality, challenging beliefs about Rome and China.

Roman ships equipped with bronze rams sank dozens of Carthaginian ships during a major naval battle in 241 BCE – now we know how the rams were made ...

Unusual rocks on an Icelandic beach were dropped there by icebergs, adding to evidence that an unusually cool period preceded ...