Life for pagans in late Roman times wasn’t just about temples and gods—it became a struggle for identity, tradition, and survival in a changing ...

Thousands of years ago, on the sacred rock from which my ancestors fled, this season of the year was celebrated as Samhain, an ancient Celtic festival ...

Mystery Cults in Ancient Greece and Rome,” by Damien Stone.

His debut novel, The Dream of Magnus Maximus, follows the story of the usurping emperor Magnus Maximus and his British wife ...

As we can see, Jesus was probably about as tall as the average Jew of that time and place but roughly how tall was this ...

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

The release slate is stacked. Although Margaret Farrell made a strong case for Sorry’s COSPLAY as our Album Of The Week, this ...

When there’s no moon and the clouds hang low, Pendle Hill merges with the night. The colossal hump of millstone grit is lost ...

Just 2 meters under the water of Playa de Palma, archaeologists have discovered a surprisingly well-preserved Roman merchant ship that sank about 1.7 thousand years ago. The vessel, dubbed the Ses ...

Day of the Dead celebrations changed during COVID, shaped by anxieties about the ‘shadow pandemic’ of gender violence.

The British sculptor Antony Gormley and the Japanese architect Tadao Ando designed an installation evoking the ancient Roman ...