SUMMARY Slavery was integral to Roman society, and slaves outnumbered citizens in Rome. There were many routes to slavery, including as prisoners of war, selling oneself into slavery, or being born a ...

Most research on women in Ancient Greece and Rome concentrate on urban domestic life where there were no references to women ...

The Roman salute is conditionally allowed in Italy and outright banned in Germany. German chancellor Olaf Scholz responded to ...

A specialist in Roman social and cultural history, political theory and law, Champlin joined Princeton’s faculty in 1976 and ...

Vālmīki’s epic poem “The Rāmāyaṇa” is a great work of literature and a treasure of Indian culture — but its political and ...

A Roman-era cemetery, found ahead of a construction project in England, holds an unusual burial at its center.

Deep beneath Rome’s Domus Aurea, archaeologists have unearthed a rare ingot of Egyptian blue — the world’s first synthetic ...

"The gesture of the raised right arm or hand in Roman and other ancient cultures that is attested in surviving art and literature had a significantly different function and is never identical with ...

One of the most common explanations is that Valentine's Day has its origins in the ancient Roman fertility festival of ...

Learn about the journey of the Greek language from its ancient origins to the vernacular of modern Greece through the lens of ...

By now you will have seen the questionable arm gesture Elon Musk made during a speech celebrating President Trump on Tuesday.

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...