An incredible new map captures a stunning snapshot of the Roman Empire's vast transportation system as it was nearly 2,000 ...

The benefit of fragmentation is the central idea of Scheidel’s Escape from Rome, published in 2019. The idea was not new. But ...

There's a funny scene in "The Life of Brian," the controversial 1979 movie from the Monty Python chaps. Brian, a Jewish zealot, played by Graham Chapman, paints "Romans go home" on the walls of ...

Archaeologists have compiled the most detailed map yet of roads throughout the Roman Empire in AD 150, totalling almost ...

At its zenith in the second century AD, the Roman Empire encompassed more than 55 million inhabitants stretching from Britain to Egypt and Syria. While historians have long recognized that an ...

For 5,000 years scholars, generals, and mystics have been fascinated by the Egyptian pyramids. That obsession persists in the ...

Her work is lauded by international critics. Foreign collectors and museums covet her rare prints. Yet, at 76, the French ...

My dadu, my father’s father, was bipolar: he had long periods of deep depression, when he would barely move or talk, followed ...

Monty Python fans would do well to check out this '70s fantasy flick on Prime Video, which remains one of Terry Gilliam's ...

Studios were unwilling to finance Monty Python and the Holy Grail, so the film's creatives turned to some major rock acts ...

A statue of Terry Jones, celebrating him as the Nude Organist from Monty Python's Flying Circus, will be unveiled on the seafront of his home town of Colwyn Bay next year. The comic actor and writer, ...