The tale of "The Haunting of Athenodorus" is one of the earliest recorded ghost stories, dating back to early Roman years of ...

Archaeologists discovered a hidden trove of ancient Roman silver coins on the island of Pantelleria near Sicily.

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Saints Victor and Corona (also known as Saints Victor and Stephanie) are two Christian martyrs. Victor was a Roman soldier ...

For hundreds of years, the territory of modern Ukraine was divided between various European powers—primarily the Russian and ...

Boethius offers both intellectual stimulation and spiritual succour. So why, 1500 years after his death, is he so ...

Dalrymple’s book argues that ideas originating in India have influenced a wider swathe of the world around it, rewiring ...

Despite some straight-washing of the original story, SF Opera's Verdi is taut and athletic under conductor Eun Sun Kim.

Without Rome, we wouldn’t be Bvlgari,” explains chief executive Jean-Christophe Babin. “At the end of the 19th century, our ...

More than a year after the Titan submersible imploded, killing all five voyagers on board, the story of the ill-fated expedition to the Titanic has taken the form of a modern-day Greek tragedy ...

By the end of our time in Albania, much like our initial uneasy approach to travelling here with our son, Finley is ...