In 2003, during excavations in the ancient Greek city of Chersonesus Taurica, in present-day Sevastopol (Crimea), a team of Ukrainian and Polish archaeologists made an exceptional discovery: the ...

Being a Roman emperor was a risky job. It wasn't unusual for emperors to be killed by usurpers wanting to remove them from power. They also faced many health challenges, such as death from epidemics ...

If President Trump were a Roman emperor, which would he be? Professor Mary Beard thinks Elagabalus, the third-century ruler who apparently drowned his guests in rose petals released from a false ...

On this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with reflections on the misuse of history in today’s politics. He argues that fascism, once thought to have been buried by the ...

History paints Cleopatra as a seductress. But there’s little we actually know about Egypt’s politically savvy last queen. One of the few women who ruled ancient Egypt, Cleopatra VII was destined to be ...