Are you not entertained? New analysis from the bones of an ancient gladiator discovered in York suggests that British ...

Bite marks on a 1,800-year-old skeleton from Roman Britain suggest that a gladiator ... which sometimes happened to defeated gladiators at the end of a fight, the team wrote in the paper.

In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China's sun-scorched plains: "Heaven has gone blind!" ...

Although the country officially declared full independence from British influence in 1955, it has long maintained a proud history of resisting colonial rule. Since 1991, the Ethiopian People’s ...

What happens during the interregnum period? Tom Reese, S.J., explains the time between one pope's death and the succession of ...

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The 1st century BC marked the last days of the Roman Republic and creation of the province of Lusitania as part of the ...

US President Donald Trump lashed out at Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday, blaming the Ukrainian president's refusal to accept ...