Spartacus, a Thracian gladiator who had once served in the Roman army, escaped from slavery in 73 BCE. What began as a prison ...

Roman engineering resources were fully harnessed to build the Via Appia and Via Traiana, involving sweeping land reclamation works, the construction of major civil engineering works and the use of the ...

Excavators working at an ancient Catholic church in Italy recently found an even older religious symbol: the head of an ancient deity. The Appian Way Regional Park announced the find on Facebook.

DENVER, April 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Appian (NASDAQ: APPN) today announced the Partner Award winners at its annual Appian World global conference. This year's winners have created innovative ...

Archaeologists recently announced the discovery of over 100 buried horses dating back to ancient Rome – but the skeletons weren't found in Italy. The excavation took place at Bad Cannstatt ...

Rome, Italy – About 250,000 mourners in Vatican City fell into hushed silence on Saturday morning as the funeral for Pope Francis began. The church choir echoed through loudspeakers across the ...

“Hee Haw” cast member Lulu Roman is dead at 78. Her son Damon Roman told the Hollywood Reporter his mom died Wednesday in Washington State, where she’d been living for the past seven month ...

Lulu Roman, a gospel singer who starred in the variety shows Hee Haw and Hee Haw Honeys, has passed away. She was 78. Roman’s son confirmed her passing to The Hollywood Reporter. She passed away ...

A Chinese couple allegedly tied to Chinese Triad gangs and a turf war over the lucrative textile industry were assassinated in Rome Monday night, the Italian Carabinieri said in a statement.

History suggests otherwise, a scholar explains. (The Conversation) — It’s a straightforward part of the Easter story: The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his ...

Nathanael Andrade has received fellowship funding from the Andrew Mellon Foundation/the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of ...