Oldest gym membership written in Greek on papyrus 1,800 years ago reveals structured athletic life in Roman Egypt.

To Ringbauer’s surprise, people from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture—also known as Punic people—shared no ...

The ancient Herculaneum scrolls' long lost writings, charred and buried during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, are finally ...

What did race and identity mean to the Romans? In this episode of Kings and Generals, we examine ancient views on ethnicity, ...

The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

Can a selective approach to ancient thinkers like Epicurus, Aristotle or Plato yield fruitful insights about 21st-century ...

In this three-hour Ancient Rome tour, we will look closely at this period and how, under the influence of the first emperors, Rome rapidly developed into one of the greatest capitals of the ancient ...

Esse quam videri. Popularized by the ancient Roman statesman and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero, who likely first read the Greek version from Plato and Aeschylus, the phrase means “to be rather ...

Esse quam videri. Popularized by the ancient Roman statesman and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero, who likely first read the ...

Ancient Greek scientists and philosophers are brought back to life and tell their stories in this video produced through AI ...

Unable to attend the Good Friday ceremony in person for the third consecutive year, the pope offered deep meditations for the ...