Pope Francis will dialogue with famous international artists on the universal power of art as an instrument of unity and hope ...

Italian Holocaust survivor and Life Senator Liliana Segre is exhausted after coming under a new wave of anti-Semitic abuse ...

How African American Cuisine Transformed America" will be held on Feb. 5, alongside a community meal and a make-your-own ...

Veteran documentary filmmaker Ondi Timoner and her wife, Morgan Doctor, were working on a film in Rome on Jan. 7 when they got a late-night phone call. It was Timoner’s brother. He was calling to ...

An international team of archaeologists face the fascinating challenge of bringing to light the lost secrets of the Roman Empire. To understand who the gladiators were and to discover the secret ...

Peter Aicher is an Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Southern Maine and one of the Roman experts who assisted NOVA in the making of the documentary, "Secrets of Lost Empires ...

Traditionally, Roman society was extremely rigid. By the first century, however, the need for capable men to run Rome’s vast empire was slowly eroding the old social barriers. The social ...