The collapse of the Roman Republic offers salutary lessons for those who wish to strengthen democracy. We should heed the lessons of history. Cicero denounces Catiline, who sought to overthrow the ...

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For otherwise healthy plebs in the Roman world, survival depended on the four ‘Fs’: farming (your sole source of food and money), fighting, family and friends. Everything else that made life worth ...

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"Completing the Roman observatory brings us to a defining moment for the agency." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's Nancy ...

So particular was QE2’s faith that reliable rumour has it that a new recruit to a royal chapel asked if he might don the ...

A digital atlas of ancient Rome’s highways and byways reveals a road network that was more extensive than thought. By Franz Lidz The apostle Paul traveled widely across the Roman Empire to spread the ...

The time has nearly arrived. Six weeks from this Sunday, on Nov. 27, the First Sunday of Advent, the Catholic Church in the United States will begin praying a new English translation of the Mass.

The ‘Roman Limes’ represents the border line of the Roman Empire at its greatest extent in the 2nd century AD. It stretched over 5,000 km from the Atlantic coast of northern Britain, through Europe to ...

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Archaeologists in northern Spain have unearthed compelling evidence of Rome's brutal conquest tactics. The discovery of a lone skull at the ancient hillfort of La Loma reveals how Roman legionnaires ...