Modern sport can seem awash with money, but it’s been claimed that the richest sportsperson of all is an ancient Roman ...

The ancient Olympic games were crowded with male athletes, but were there opportunities for females to compete in sports?

In 565 AD, Constantinople stood at the peak of its power. With nearly half a million inhabitants, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire was the largest and most magnificent city of its age. Entering ...

Women rarely competed in the ancient Olympic Games, and authorities largely barred them from even attending, according to an explainer by Owen Jarus, ...

The summer night of great orchestral music bids farewell to the Baths of Caracalla to conquer the arena of the Circus Maximus. Who knows if the emperor himself would have approved: he, son ...

The seal mixes medieval craftsmanship with Roman-era ornamentation, merging two time periods in one design.

I really wish I could have seen “Custer’s Last Fight.” No, not the real battle at the Little Bighorn in 1876. I’m talking about the epic stage play that came to downtown Wilkes-Barre 119 years ago (a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Poseidon is the Greek God who looms largest in the life of his demigod son, Perseus “Percy” Jackson (Walker Scobell). But it’s ...

Sire: CINCO CHARLIE, b, 2012. Raced 3 yrs, 18 sts, 8 wins, $608,920. Won Bashford Manor S (G3), Riley Allison S, William Walker S, James F. Lewis III S, Duncan F. Kenner S, Sugar Bowl S, First State ...

A remarkable Roman mosaic found in Rutland turns out to tell a forgotten version of the Trojan War. Rather than Homer’s famous epic, it reflects a lost Greek tragedy by Aeschylus, featuring vivid ...

In the grand cities of ancient Rome, aqueducts delivered life-giving water to fountains, baths, and homes. The concrete Romans invented allowed them to build these vast networks. But those systems ...