Pontius Pilate's role as governor of Judea has been widely misunderstood for nearly two thousand years. The error, researchers say, traces back to a single sentence written by a Roman historian.
Wojciech Jan Kosior of the Faculty of Law and...
In the years before World War II, the Nazis embarked on a search for an ancient Roman manuscript they believed would prove the existence of a superior race from Atlantis, the legendary advanced ancient civilization said to have sunk...
Of all the things we know about Rome, the story of its first emperor, Augustus, is the one that the Roman Empire celebrated above all others.
For the Romans, Augustus was their savior, the man who ended decades of bloody...
The myth of the “noble savage”—of humanity once pure, simple, and good before civilization’s corruptions—did not begin with Rousseau but long before the Enlightenment, when Ancient Greek and Roman thinkers had imagined a world in which man lived in...
