The ancient Greeks we admire today regarded these seven men as the wisest of their time. They attributed to them not only the ...

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The roughly 11,000 inscriptions preserved by Mount Vesuvius' eruption in 79 C.E. offer a glimpse into everyday life in the ...

About 2,400 years ago, before the emergence of the Roman empire, a small armada of boats approached the island of Als off the ...

If there is a villain in the Nativity story it is surely Herod, the monarch who supposedly slaughtered thousands of infants ...

Long before Cleopatra and Hatshepsut, Ankhnespepy II amassed unprecedented political and religious power. Here's how.

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The social status and evolving rights of children in ancient Rome, from the absolute power of a father to early legal protections and reforms.

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Logic is not a law above God, but an expression of His nature. As Christian philosopher William Lane Craig explains, “God is ...