AD, during the reign of Emperor Justinian, the Roman Empire experienced an extraordinary resurgence, reconquering lands - ...

During 19th-century excavations at Pompeii, the ancient Roman city that was buried in volcanic ash in 79 C.E. after the […] ...

A sensational new papyrus from Israel documents fraud and sedition on the eve of a major Jewish revolt against Rome in the ...

Once Africans became items of commerce, it became imperative that their status be recalibrated and their human status ...

Claudius I, who extended Roman rule in North Africa and made Britain a province of the Roman Empire, was affirmed as emperor, raised to the post one day after the murder of his nephew, Gaius Caesa ...

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This ancient city has a history that stretches back nearly three millennia and it was once the heart of a powerful ...

What Europe’s smallest, UNESCO World Heritage-listed capital lacks in size is amply compensated for in its wealth of ...

By: Yael Toyber, SFU Student Content warning: descriptions of the Holocaust and antisemitism. My friends and I joke when explaining Jewish holidays to non-Jews: “We survived, and now we eat!” ...

These are the events and people that shaped the history of travel, from early pilgrimages and the Age of Discovery, to the ...

In that article we dedicated to the tragic end of the Dutch Prime Minister and his brother in 1672, we explained that the ...

Over that time, they have served as a crucible of cultures from around the Mediterranean and North Africa. This long ... traditions and even coinage until well into the days of the Roman Empire, when ...