In different passage, Aulus tells us about some bookstalls he came across when he arrived by ship at the port of Brundisium ...

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 ...

The transformation of the Roman Empire into what modern historians call Byzantium was not a single event but a gradual ...

Five “reimagined” galleries at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts have now opened to expand the display of the museum’s impressive collection of art from the ancient world, fulfilling the longtime vision of ...

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 ...