The mortar, pestle and cutting board in your kitchen are modern versions of manos and metates—ancient cooking implements ...

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While the “frivolous East” may have been happy to venerate men as though they were gods, the serious men of the Roman ...

Americans continue to wonder about the possibility of DOGE stimulus checks as the newly formed government agency, unofficially led to billionaire Elon Musk, continues on its quest to reduce ...

After the kings were expelled from Rome and before the Julio-Claudians established the first imperial dynasty, the consuls were the most powerful men in Rome. This political position was designed to ...

Instead, the archaeologists — budding and not — last summer uncovered what may be the oldest existing example in the ancient Roman world of a mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath. They have ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Elon Musk, center left, operating with a directive from President Donald Trump to slash government spending ...

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Croatia In 301 A.D., the Emperor Diocletian made a bold but ultimately unsuccessful bid to address the inflation that was rampaging across the eastern half of the divided Roman Empire. Prices of ...

(Editor's Notes by Christina Myer - Photo Illustration - MetroCreativeConnection) I’ve written before about the appalling and often disappointing trend over the past several years of people not ...

This photo provided by João Zilhão shows forearm bone fragments belonging to an ancient child that appeared to have features from both humans and Neanderthals. (João Zilhão via AP) Advertisement ...

Originally built in AD70 and then expended in AD90 – 120, London’s Roman basilica was a building unlike any other in Britain. Occupying nearly 2 hectares of land and standing at a height of up to 3 ...