Nero, Rome’s emperor from 54 to 68 C.E., rose to power at a young age and remained focused on himself, letting the needs of ...

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According to the distinguished Renaissance humanist and scholar Girolamo Cardano (1501–1576), “Jàcopo Bonfàdio (c. 1508–1550), a man otherwise not in the last place among the erudite, because of ...

Archaeologists are excavating a Roman-era watchtower in Croatia that was "built in a strategic location" on the banks of the ...

Ricci map - detail from a China panel. All images via Wikipedia. In 1602, the Wanli Emperor of the Ming dynasty had a big ...

Aided with a grant from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, the resident of Brooklyn, New York, is in Heidelberg, Germany, ...

Despite how Ross’ paleontology career is treated by his companions in Friends, there’s something special about finding the ...

A messy and petty assassination plot kills Aurelian after 5 years of ruling. Would Rome be doomed to start the crisis a new?

History is also a factor in “Jacqueline,” the other opera that OrpheusPDX is doing this season. It is inspired by the life of ...

At the Roman settlement of A Cibdá de Armea in northwestern Spain, archaeologists uncovered evidence suggesting that ancient ...

Built as a church and repurposed during its 1,500‑year history as a mosque, a museum and now a mosque once more, the Hagia ...

Ancient writing is so riddled with holes, from Greek poet Sappho's fragmentary poetry to entire missing stories from famed ...