Hannibal of Carthage (Radio Edit)

Greg Jenner is joined in ancient North Africa by classicist Professor Josephine Quinn and comedian Darren Harriott to learn ...
Greek Reporter

The Unexplained Celestial Phenomenon That Paused Rome’s Mithridatic Wars

Imagine two armies facing off, ready for battle—a scene from the Mithridatic Wars—when suddenly a burning, massive object ...
Ancient Origins

Roman War Trophy: Decapitated Celtic Warrior's Skull Found In Spain

The Cantabrian Wars (29-16 BC) represented Rome's final push to subjugate the last independent Celtic peoples in western continental Europe. The conflicts were so challenging that Augustus himself ...

Ancient Spanish skull reveals Roman campaign of intimidation, adds to sparse record of war

The 2020 discovery of the skull was recently published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology, focusing on the Romans’ siege of La Loma.

See how the collapse of a medieval tower shook up Rome

The deadly collapse of a medieval tower being renovated in the heart of ancient Rome exposes the fault lines in a city still ...

Stop believing these myths about the ancient Roman Empire

A compelling creation myth was a must for every ancient civilisation, but Rome decided that one just wasn’t enough. In myth ...
Newsday

‘Civil Wars’ review: Harvard historian David Armitage explores conflicts from Ancient Rome to Syria

CIVIL WARS: A History in Ideas, by David Armitage. Alfred A. Knopf, 349 pp., $27.95. In the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln used three of its 272 immortal words to describe the military cataclysm ...