Emperor Crassus became the richest Roman and one of the richest men in the ancient world through his cunning, business savvy ...

Marxism has had a huge impact on the study of the past in two distinct, but interrelated ways. On the one hand, Marxist ...

Scientists reveal Scandinavian roots of Roman gladiators in Britain through DNA analysis Ancient European migrations traced ...

Pope Francis has declared 2025 to be a Jubilee year for the Catholic Church. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Claire Giangravé from the Religion News Service about the tradition.

1622 – The Papal Chancery adopted January 1st as the beginning of the New Year (instead of March 25th). 1772 – The first ...

Charles Ignatius Sancho was born on a slave ship on the Atlantic Ocean in 1729, yet he became a writer, a composer, a shopkeeper and a respected man of letters in 18th-century London – the first man ...

I keep a notebook of all the books I read, and at year’s end I take stock. This year, I read 40 books, down significantly ...

Rome was never to enact a total debt abolition [9 ... The indebted senators had assets consisting of land, livestock, slaves, houses and valuable objects and, unless they sold a fraction of these ...

Officials are investigating the death of Robert Brooks, an inmate who died after he was brutally pummeled by corrections officers in New York.

In the first movie, he hit on a winning formula that showcased his favorite preoccupations in a decidedly Roman key: decadent ...

From the pasta aisles of Rome to the ketchup bottles and beauty products in American supermarkets, the bitter fruits of Uyghur forced labor are making their way into kitchens and makeup cabinets ...