Presented by Professor Suzannah Lipscomb. The researcher is Max Wintle, audio editor is Amy Haddow and the producer is Rob Weinberg. The senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff. All music courtesy of ...

Commodus, Rome's infamous "mad emperor," ruled with vanity, cruelty, and gladiatorial obsession, shaping the empire's decline ...

The front of the coin will feature Trump in profile, with his trademark 1967 Las Vegas lounge act hairstyle delineated in ...

Nearly 60 works from the legendary Torlonia Collection, hidden for decades, showcase the splendor of ancient Rome at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth.

The portrait shows a determined child with a steely gaze, holding a weaving shuttle in one hand and red thread in the other. This stern expression has long been interpreted as evidence of Marie ...

Archaeologists in France recovered 847 Roman coins from an ancient shipwreck in the Rhône River near Arles, calling it an exceptional find.

One way to cope with our confusing times is to look back at the past. Studying history does more than provide us with ...

Charming lakeside city offers an enticing, I-could-live-here glimpse of the appealing and uniquely Swiss urban quality of ...

He was denounced by rebel propagandists as a tyrant and remembered by Americans as a reactionary dolt. Who was he really?

Myth and Marble,” an exhibition of the Torlonia Collection at the Kimbell Art Museum, has been thousands of years in the ...

The metal detectorist was on a mission to land himself a jackpot and after five years of pacing around fields, he finally ...

By contrast, Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch,” the star attraction at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum and one of the most famous ...