An international research team has secured more than €1 million to investigate a recently uncovered Roman cult district. Roman-period archaeology in Hesse has reached a new stage of progress. The Germ ...

As the horror movie "Sinners" stands poised to sweep the Oscars, we take a look at how and why the vampire genre has long ...

A conversation with Kwame Anthony Appiah about the religious origins of social theory and his recent book Captive Gods.

Several years ago, construction work for a new school in Frankfurt led to a discovery of regional importance: a large Roman ...

An ancient Roman artifact depicting a large feline resting its paw on a barbarian's head was found by a metal detectorist in ...

I n a 1988 video that surfaced during his 2020 presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders, then-mayor of Burlington, Vermont, stands in a tweed blazer, holding a microphone, near the f ...

Join historian Tristan Hughes as he teams up with archaeologist Simon Elliot on the hunt for the lost 9th legion. Together they follow the 9th's trail to the north of England where they stand on the ...

Archaeologists excavating in the west Nile Delta have discovered a necropolis and industrial complex dating from the Roman Period. Thought to date from around the 5 th century B.C.E, the two complexes ...

Once one of the largest cities in Roman Britain, Viroconium (modern-day Wroxeter) was a thriving urban center—until it was mysteriously abandoned. But alongside its ruins, a strange legend persists: a ...

Christianity spread across the Roman Empire through appropriation, suppression, and redefinition of earlier religious symbols. Credit: Ingo Mehling Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 Christianity ...

MINSK, 24 December (BelTA) – Chairman of the State Security Committee of Belarus Ivan Tertel has shared details of exactly what information Roman Protasevich had managed to obtain abroad as a ...