Artists from Bernini to Louise Bourgeois are brought together in a new exhibition exploring the uncomfortable erotic parables of the ancient Roman poet ...

New Juno data shows Jupiter is smaller and flatter than thought, forcing scientists to update models of the gas giant.

Inside a church just outside Naples, people known as femminielli gathered for La Juta, a centuries-old Candlemas pilgrimage ...

This week, we revisit Egypt's sacred, mystical wilderness, not the desert caves where early Christian mystics meditated, but instead the birthplace of the philosophy and magic systems that inspired ...

Mithraism’s adoption and integration of Stoic virtues is compelling and noteworthy. These virtues not only shaped the ...

Construction work for a new school in Frankfurt, Germany, has exposed a unique Roman sanctuary, part of the ancient town of ...

Roman gods look familiar for a reason: much of Roman mythology was shaped by Greek influence. This video breaks down the key similarities and differences between major gods like Zeus and Jupiter, Hera ...

Evidence of ancient occupation around Via Pietralata was found in the 1990s, and excavations of the area of the shrine began ...

Ex-Assassin's Creed boss Marc-Alexis Côté is suing Ubisoft for CAD $1.3 million ($937k) in lost severance pay and damages following his shock exit from the company last year.

Historian and co-host of The Rest Is History podcast Tom Holland joins Amol to explore the history of radical ideas and what it means to be radical today. Tom explains why Christianity represented ...

In the early fourth century A.D., Rome was notorious for persecuting Christians. Yet the night before battle, Constantine ...

Ares is one of the most popular gods of the Greek pantheon. He is also one of the earliest documented deities, known from the texts much older than the Iliad. This deity is primarily known as a bloody ...