Ghosts stories appear in several surviving texts from ancient Rome. What do they reveal about the people who told them?

Now at the Kimbell Art Museum, this exhibition is the first in the U.S. to display works from a vast, vital Italian ...

In this painting, The Banquet of Cleopatra, also by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770), Cleopatra’s pearl is in her outstretched hand as she likely tells Mark Antony in regal Roman dress how she ...

Join Dr. Ioannis Syrigos from Ancient Origins as he interviews Eckart Frahm, Yale professor and leading expert on Assyria and Mesopotamian history. Together, they’ll uncover the mysteries of the ...

Two meetings with Robert Weis await Roman readers. The writer will present the new book 'Return to Kyoto' on Saturday, ...

What is Ancient History?Walter Scheidel, Princeton UP, £25IT is not often that you read an academic text that is effectively an exercise in demolition directed towards another academic discipline, but ...

As for why "For Those About to Rock" features the sound of cannons, those trademark booms were inspired by yet another ...

The teaching of the “classics” – primarily the ancient civilisations of Greece and Rome – may be fading from universities, but interest remains high among publishers and readers. This is largely ...

The Miles Franklin winner’s fifth novel, about an unhappy teen at boarding school, is imbued with a love of ancient myths.

The latest Asterix cartoon adventure is being published in 19 languages and across 25 countries as it takes the indomitable ...

By seeking to assert control over civic architecture, Trump is creating a physical testament to his destruction of democracy, ...

Is this the real reason the Roman Empire collapsed? Throughout antiquity, kingdoms and nations rose and fell but Rome stood strong—until its steep decline. The fall of this ancient superpower is so ...