Sarah Bond is a professor of classics at the University of Iowa and the author of Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in ...

The Roman Empire faced a deadly plague during Valerian’s reign, weakening its strength at a critical moment. This video ...

Alexander the Great's siege of the island city of Tyre used all the innovation and cunning worthy of a conqueror still known ...

Marie Antoinette—played by Kirsten Dunst in Sofia Coppola's stunning new film—used her distinctive personal style to defy the ...

The person who maintains intimacy with God, avoiding and repenting from the burn-out traps of the flesh, who continues to recover from inevitably poor or bad decisions, who develops a continuous ...

The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented ...

Sporting sandals, swim shorts and baseball caps — and hopefully plenty of sunscreen — a cohort of state lawmakers hopped ...

In some parts of the Roman Empire, abortion and infanticide were so prevalent that reproduction rates were below the zero-growth level. (Sad to say, most European countries face a similar plight ...

Ride the “Sky Trail” gondola that floats you through the treetops for breathtaking forest views. The Cathedral Tree features ...

Bones found at the site of an ancient fish-processing plant were used to genetically identify the species that went into a ...

Eight XXL leather shoes have been recovered from Magna, a Roman-era fort along Hadrian's Wall. Archaeologists excavating a ...

As America begins its 250th year, it is fitting to draw attention to the great people and ideas that made it possible. Neither the Declaration of Independence of 1776 nor the Constitution of 1787 ...