Standing in the vast ruins of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, hundreds of gulls circle above. Their haunting cries echo ...

Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. takes a deep dive into the pope's past in New York Times Magazine piece.

Public baths also often featured gymnasiums, libraries, restaurants and exercise yards. Archaeological evidence suggests even ...

In 1850s America, escaped slaves and people that tried to help them were ruled criminals and the people that owned the slaves weren’t the ...

At 18 years old, Ms Roman flew back to Larrakia Country, but she struggled with the isolation from her time interstate. "I had been gone for so long during my puberty years, I missed out on being ...

An extraordinary discovery of a Roman pot was made at the Drumanagh promontory fort in Ireland, the first ever found. The ...

Without question, the dignity of people needs to be safeguarded, both within and without the "sphere of sexuality." But if ...

Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher-king, faced crises while ruling the Roman Empire, as reflected in his personal \"Meditations ...

From soldier wages to political fortunes, Roman earnings reveal how war, wealth, and ambition shaped power in the ancient ...

This interactive, designed and built by Slate’s Andrew Kahn, gives you a sense of the scale of the trans-Atlantic slave trade across time, as well as the flow of transport and eventual ...

For the first time in history, Washington state will conduct a study and develop proposals for reparations to descendants of chattel slavery. Approved as part of the state’s $78 billion two-year ...