Based on a long-standing history of cucina povera (or peasant-style cookery), many Roman recipes use a handful of local ingredients with great finesse to craft such hearty and delicious meals. Classic ...

A pot containing 1,368 Roman coins from the year 55 AD has been found in Worcestershire, the largest treasure trove from Nero ...

Renaissance Europe revered ancient Greece but dismissed Byzantium—a West–East divide that continues to shape humanism today.

But now, much like the latter-stage Roman Empire, the opulent hotel overlooking Central Park has fallen from grace with ...

With the death of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE, Rome entered a period of political upheaval settled only when Caesar's nephew Octavian defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra, took control of the Empire, and ...

History and myth are different narrative techniques, and both can be used to stimulate national pride and cohesion and to ...

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Get ready to can can can all the way to the box office, as it's just been announced that smash hit musical Moulin Rouge is coming to the North East in 2026. And its stint at the Sunderland Empire next ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel's far-right finance minister said on Wednesday that maps were being drawn up for annexing territory in the occupied West Bank, land the Palestinians seek for a state, ...

Romans loved garum, a salty fish sauce that showed up on tables from Spain to Syria. A new study spells out which fish actually went into it by reading DNA from tiny bones buried in an ancient salting ...

On this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with reflections on the misuse of history in today’s politics. He argues that fascism, once thought to have been buried by the ...