Romulus and Remus were the legendary founders of Rome, but according to ancient records, they were originally Greek.

One of the things I never wrapped my head around was how the Roman Republic managed to conquer the mighty city-states and ...

ROME — “Captive Greece held captive her uncouth conqueror and brought the arts to the rustic Latin lands,” as the poet Horace wrote toward the end of the first century B.C., encapsulating in a few ...

Few figures in history have been as polarizing as Nero, the infamous Roman emperor who had a love affair with everything ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ruined harbour of Carthage, depicted in the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570) - Alamy By the 14th century, it was well known that ...

If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be like? You don’t just have to imagine it. The ancient Roman writer Aulus Gellius, who lived in the 2nd century CE, gives us a ...

ROME, Dec. 13--King Constantine of Greece flew to Rome with the royal family early today while the Athens military regime claimed that the young monarch's attempt to overthrow it was smashed. The ...