Hagia Sophia was one of several great churches originally built by Constantine, the first Christian emperor and founder of the city of Constantinople. For almost 1,000 years Hagia Sophia remained the ...
A team of researchers in the Netherlands set out to decipher the rules of an ancient Roman board game, with an assist from artificial intelligence.
This series chronicles the lives of Rome's greatest gladiators - from Spartacus's defiant rebellion to Flamma's ultimate sacrifice in the arena. Their stories reveal the brutal rise and fall of ...
Empires do not fall when they are defeated from the outside, but when their systems grow so heavy that the society beneath them breaks-and begins to feed upon itself. The United States and NATO are ...
In the grand cities of ancient Rome, aqueducts delivered life-giving water to fountains, baths, and homes. The concrete Romans invented allowed them to build these vast networks. But those systems ...
Maximilian Dröllner has received funding from the Minerals Research Institute Of Western Australia. Chris Kirkland has received research funding from the Minerals Research Institute of Western ...
The twisting journey of Pretzel Therapeutics’ top brass appears to have come full circle, with the biotech subsuming the very company where some of its senior figures once worked. Pretzel’s CEO and co ...
December 2025 marks the centennial of Pope Pius XI’s 1925 encyclical Quas Primas, which established the feast of Christ the King. Today, this feast is often commemorated by your average, milquetoast ...
The cultural and scientific revolutions that define the Renaissance were kickstarted in large part by Europe’s rediscovery of lost Roman sculpture. Inspiring the likes of Raphael, Donatello, ...
This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. WASHINGTON — As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and those roads stretched 50% longer than previously ...
Researchers have launched Itiner-e, an interactive digital map tracing 300,000 kilometers of ancient Roman roads. The project reveals a far more extensive Roman network than previously believed, ...
When in Rome, do as the Romans do. A social media trend revealed a few years ago that men think about the Roman Empire, the most impressive one in human history, more often than they probably ever ...