With the clear Biblical, Jewish precedence for both Hummus and Za`atar in ancient Israelite cuisine — vastly predating the ...

An aspiring dictator, fueled by popular resentment, overthrows a failing republic. We've seen this show before ...

Ireland thus had the unusual distinction of having had a foreign policy and a diplomatic service before there was an internationally recognised independent Irish state. The origins of the modern ...

Soomin Kong / Staff Artist I recently finished reading “The Brothers Karamazov” in a bid to increase my pretentiousness tenfold by the time that I finally become an upperclassman. In short, I ...

A bioarchaeological investigation has revealed that the quality of life in the countryside was better than city life in the ...

Put simply, we need to learn how to do things the right way. This is the art of virtue. What is Virtue? The Catechism of the Catholic Church (hereafter CCC) defines virtue as "a habitual and firm ...

Pompeii only came under Roman control around 160 years before its destruction – and its traffic-worn streets show how the ...

But it was the Romans who developed a working model of checks and balances. The constitution of the Roman republic was ...

She lived in the Roman Empire during the reign of Diocletian, and died in 288. According to legend, she attended to the wounded St. Sebastian after he was shot full of arrows as depicted in the ...

when it would have been demolished and replaced by a much larger second forum, reflecting the rapid growth and importance of Londinium in the Roman Empire.

How a group of Florentine businessmen became the founders of an order that would span continents and centuries.