Lauren was fine with buying her own ring. Her family? Not so much. Her dad, especially, was skeptical. “The first thing he ...

The ancient Greek Stoic philosopher Epictetus was born into slavery but his study of Stoicism made him a free man who became very influential.

During the Hellenistic era, an obscure city in western Asia Minor (modern Turkey) became one of the leading states of the 3rd ...

The Attalids made Pergamon a model city and, at the same time, a powerful state that became famous in the ancient world and expanded into Anatolia due to a favorable alliance with Rome. It was the ...

The Arch of Constantine in Rome, which was built across the Via Triumphalis close to the Colosseum in A.D. 312–315, celebrates Constantine’s victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in A.D ...

Pope Francis has been admitted to a hospital in Rome for tests and treatment for bronchitis, the Vatican announced, confirming the latest threat to the 88-year-old pontiff’s health.

(8 things people get wrong about ancient Rome.) A reconstruction of the consulting room of the Surgeon’s House at the Museum of Rimini shows furniture that typically adorned such a house in the ...

Italy President's 'Third Reich' Comments on Russia Spark Rome-Moscow Dispute ROME (Reuters) - Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni accused Russia of "offending the entire Italian nation" on Friday as she ...