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 ...

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DNA from a Roman salting site in Spain reveals sardines were the key fish used in garum, the famous sauce rooted in Greek and ...

Excavations of the northern defensive ditches of Magna Fort have revealed 32 shoes buried in the “semi-anaerobic low oxygen deposits,” according to a July 2 news release from the Vindolanda Charitable ...

According to Yvette, the bride came into the bakery requesting a tiered wedding cake. "No problem!" she recalled. The bride ...

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

To modern eyes, much of Pompeii’s erotic art might look like ancient pornography. But to the Romans, these images weren’t ...

From seasonal intimacy schedules to open-air nudity, ancient Greco-Roman thinkers had no shortage of theories on how to stay ...

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Our family moved from a US city to a small town in Southern Italy years ago. Our housing and healthcare are affordable, but ...

Gabriel Zuchtriegel’s spirited part-history, part-memoir evokes the everyday life of the ancient city, and poses some very ...

Every place in the world has its own story, waiting to be heard. And there are some places in the world that are nothing less ...