Netflix’s live-action Assassin’s Creed series is rapidly expanding its roster, with newly announced cast members Noomi Rapace, Ramzy Bedia, Sean Harris, and Corrado Invernizzi joining Toby Wallace, ...

Learn how a Roman polybolos unleashed rapid-fire projectiles during the siege of Pompeii.

As Netflix’s Assassin’s Creed starts production, we finally know what time period this adaptation of the hit video game series will take place in! As soon as Ne ...

Immersing students in the history and politics of ancient Rome helps them come to a rich understanding of Shakespeare’s play.

Ubisoft has announced that the upcoming live-action Assassin’s Creed series will take place in Ancient Rome, specifically in ...

Over the centuries, it has attracted important figures, St. Catherine of Siena and the Renaissance painter Fra Angelico, both ...

Explore the world of Roman tombs, from simple stelae to grand mausoleums, revealing how ordinary Romans—soldiers, freedmen, women, and children—were commemorated. Discover the variations in tomb ...

Archaeologists excavating in Rome's Ostiense necropolis found three skeletons with iron nails on their chests, hinting at a ritual to prevent restless spirits.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with archaeologist Gary Feinman about new findings that show democracy existed throughout the ancient world and was not exclusive to Mediterranean Europe.

A quiet cloister behind a wooden door near Rome's Pantheon offers calm meditation, while its frescoes reveal a turbulent past ...

The beginning of the year feels fixed and universal, yet, in Florence, the new year did not begin until March 25.

Can one man really have that much power?” The Philadelphia Theatre Company’s recent production of “Caesar” places that question at the very center of its theatrical world. Adapted by Tyler Dobrowsky ...