Gladiator II is both bad history and bad historical fiction, Ridley Scott's maximalism never replicating the charisma of ...

I'm a historian of the medieval papacy and editor of the forthcoming three volumes of the Cambridge History of the Papacy. So ...

Christianity is often viewed as an alternative to Roman religion. But in many ways, Christianity was an expression of Roman ...

Analysis of ancient DNA from the ashen casts of Pompeii victims changes presumed relationships between them, and reveals the ...

Voting in Yuma County is underway Tuesday, with voters across the county are waiting in line to cast their ballots.

It was like a scene from the final hours of the Roman Empire: Everywhere you looked, some prominent politician was degrading ...

Vienna Boys Choir will open Illinois College’s annual Engelbach-Hart Music Festival with a free performance at 7:30 p.m.

Rome in the first century AD - the powerful Roman Empire stretches across three continents. After a long period of civil conflict, Rome saw its governance pass from a republican system to one under ...

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies held the last installment of its public lecture series this past Wednesday in ...