Many ancient records detail Romans’ use of brown bears in entertainment, according to Antiquity. They were apparently trained ...

Take a trip to ancient Rome, where slaves and pirates and ladies of the night weave a web of hilarity at Eastern Oregon ...

One of the famous brothels in ancient Pompeii was called the Lupanare (Latin for wolf’s den). Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, this was a two-story building built just years before the destruction of ...

Long before Christmas, Romans celebrated Saturnalia — a lively winter festival honoring the god Saturn. Marked by feasting, gift-giving, and role reversals where slaves and masters switched places, ...

It turns out that the “Gladiator” movies’ lurid depictions of man-on-beast gladiatorial bouts aren’t as far-fetched as some ...

As someone who researches slavery in the ancient Mediterranean world, especially in the Bible, I often hear remarks like, “Slavery was totally different back then, right?” “Well, it couldn’t have been ...

Ciaran Hinds marks the 20th anniversary of HBO and the BBC's Rome, which looked to the past to predict the future ...

The letter to Philemon tells the story of a runaway slave named Onesimus who encountered the apostle Paul and became a ...

Caste-ridden, the fictional town of Taxila is full of corruption.

You can’t imagine yourself jeering at a public execution of old. So, why are you laughing with the online humiliations that ...