With conflicts emerging all around the world and countless people suffering horribly, it can be hard to look beyond our ...

sometimes in war for the purposes of alleviating fear or increasing alertness. While there is significant evidence for the widespread use of narcotics in ancient Greece and Rome, the same cannot ...

In 1940, at the height of World War II, Italy invaded Egypt from its colony in Libya. The region later fell under the power ...

Slavery had a long history in the ancient world and was practiced ... Roman slavery was not based on race. Slaves in Rome might include prisoners of war, sailors captured and sold by pirates ...

The widespread use of narcotics, such as opium, in ancient Greece and Rome is well-documented in ... were found together with items used in warfare. Stimulants may have been widely used throughout ...

Israeli airstrikes targeting Lebanon's eastern city of Baalbek threaten to put at risk some of the largest and best-preserved temples constructed by ancient Rome, the United Nations' cultural ...

Did Jewish gladiators even exist? It’s at least as likely that Jews took to the arena in ancient Rome as it was that gladiators fought sharks, a key plot point of Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator ...

Archaeologists in France uncovered fragments of a 2nd-century CE life-size mural of Greek hero Achilles in a Roman home near Reims, France.