Ridley Scott’s movies are often splashy epics about near impossible feats undertaken by flawed but honorable and charismatic men. His subjects are both historical heroes (Napoleon, 2023; Robin Hood, ...

Though rare, female gladiators did appear in the Roman arena, challenging ancient Rome’s expectations and revealing how ...

An ancient Roman imperial palazzo atop the city's Palatine Hill was reopened to tourists on Thursday, nearly 50 years after its closure for restoration. The nearly 2,000-year-old Domus Tiberiana was ...

The latest excavations at Banias, an archaeological site and national park in the Golan Heights that abuts the border with Lebanon, have shown that a sacred cave long associated with the worship of ...

Students of all periods of ancient history face the challenge of having to rely on the light cast by available evidence, and the latest addition to PBS’s Empires series, The Roman Empire in the First ...

An essay by Marianne Bonz describing the myriad of religious options available in the Roman Empire. Bonz is managing editor of Harvard Theological Review. She received a doctorate from Harvard ...

We know that Jesus was born into a Roman imperial occupation, and pretty much immediately becomes a refugee in Egypt, has to ...