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

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

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

Regarding the questions posed at the beginning of the essay, the teachings and examples set by the Essene community had a ...

The emancipation took place on June 19, 1865, two-and-a-half years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation ...

Genetic disease is believed to be linked to 41 percent of U.S. infants' deaths, while more than 2 million children have a genetic condition.

The word at the sixth annual Juneteenth Festival in New Orleans on Thursday was heritage. Among the throngs who gathered in ...

NEW YORK – Nero's ancient Rome and Jazz Age New York were similar.

Catholic churches are celebrating the national holiday of Juneteenth this week by honoring the freedom won by formerly ...

As Pope Leo XIV settles into his papacy, the three million U.S. Black Catholics contemplate its deeper meaning, as questions ...

Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history.