The Rod of Asclepius is a striking emblem: a simple staff with a lone snake coiled around it, universally acknowledged as a symbol of medicine and healing.

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ROME (AP) — The Trevi Fountain, arguably the world’s most famous, has graced screens for decades, from Fellini’s “La Dolce ...

Ancient Rome unfairly has a reputation for having stolen or copied their mythology and religious traditions from the Greeks ...

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

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Paris (AFP) – Just days before the International Olympic Committee (IOC) elects a new president in Greece more than 400 athletes on Friday called on the future leader of the body to strengthen ...

An ancient Roman cemetery in Trogir, Croatia, revealed a rare twin burial. Mana5280 via Unsplash In 2016, construction on a private parking lot in Trogir, Croatia, destroyed layers of an ancient ...

Whatever the reasons for its inception, the wall stood as one of the largest construction projects carried out in Roman Britain. It was also rebuilt and extended numerous times throughout the Roman ...