Augustus and Nero also offered peace and security for those who fell in line. Paul critiques them in his epistle to ...

From 180 to 192 C.E., Emperor Commodus ruled ancient Rome with an insatiable lust for power that brought an end to the fabled ...

The extraordinary longevity of the Catholic Church could make it seem like a body that floats above the everyday world of ...

It was the violent profitability of slavery as an exploitative labor system that allowed for the region to prosper, the study demonstrates.

Archaeologists have discovered a 2,000-year-old Roman sandal near an ancient military fort in Oberstimm, Germany. The highly ...

Late Pope Francis, who came to be known as a strong voice for the poor, oppressed and the marginalised during his tenure as ...

Now predominantly Muslim, North Africa was once a Christian heartland, producing Catholic popes who left their mark on the ...

Former MSNBC host Joy Reid criticized major U.S. corporations for retreating from DEI initiatives, connecting to social and ...

A thrilling discovery in York has unveiled the first-ever physical evidence of a human fighting a lion in Roman times, thanks ...

A skeleton recovered from a Roman-era cemetery in England may mark the first physical evidence of combat between gladiators ...

Here we have physical evidence for the spectacle of the Roman Empire and the dangerous gladiatorial ... a gladiator role undertaken by volunteers or slaves. The skeleton was excavated from one ...

rather than soldiers or slaves, as initially thought and represent the first osteological confirmation of human interaction with large carnivores in a combat or entertainment setting in the Roman ...