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In 186 AD, Ancient Rome, which had been notably tolerant, began violently persecuting followers of the cult of god Bacchus. Something of the sort had never before been witnessed in Ancient Rome, and it wouldn't come about again until...

In the early 1200s, the flourishing Roman-barbarian city of Florence was filling its banks and institutions with gold. Close to Rome and bordering on the Exarchate of Ravenna, Florence began garnering its own independence and political organization. Despite Latin...

In the 1st century BC, the Roman Republic underwent a moment of severe crisis following the death of Caesar. This was during the transformation to its second phase as an empire. Prosperity and territorial expansion had filled Rome with...

A Greek inhabitant of the Roman city of Londinium, lived through the Antonine plague by wearing a scroll with a Greek prayer in the form of rhyming hexameters.

The ancient Greeks and Romans revered their athletes as heroes to such an extent that the sweat and grime that accumulated on their bodies during exercise and competition was a prized commodity. Hygiene and health in ancient Greece and Rome...

On Saturday April 21, the city of Rome celebrated what is believed to be its 2,776th birthday during a traditional celebration called Natale di Roma. The founding of the Eternal City was marked on Saturday with parades of re-enactors dressed...

The recent “blackwashing” of Cleopatra, the famed queen of Ancient Egypt, by the Netflix documentary has reignited the debate about her ethnic background. Despite the fact that she ruled over Egypt, Cleopatra was Greek. The new series has drawn the ire...

Believed to possess magical qualities, ancient amulets were once widely used. They range from amber pendants worn during Denmark’s Mesolithic age to evil eyes in ancient Greece. By Marguerite Johnson Throughout antiquity, from the Mediterranean to Egypt and today’s Middle East,...

A couple in New York has been using a priceless ancient Roman artifact as a coffee table for nearly 50 years. The incredible story of the 2,000-year-old "coffee table," which dates back to the time of the emperor Caligula, was...

Ancient Roman graffiti found carved into a wall in England shows that even the ancients liked leaving insulting messages in public places. Found in the site of Vindolanda in Northumberland in northern England, the ancient graffiti dates back to the...