Each Valentine's Day, millions of Americans gift their partners or loved ones with flowers, cards or candy as a token of ...

Archaeologists discovered a painted Etruscan tomb in Tarquinia, Italy, revealing frescoes that offer new insights into ...

Game Pieces Made of Bones, Hinted at Roman Military Strategy Among the exciting archaeological discoveries, some intriguing ...

The games in questions could be either Ludus Latrunculi or Doudecim Scripta, both of which were known board games played with ...

Some Christians were arrested and put to death. At the beginning of the 5th century, the Roman Empire was starting to fall apart. It was constantly under attack from tribes from northern Europe.

a fitting burial for the most feared man of the fifth century. Much of Attila’s infamy comes from his relentless campaign westward into Europe where he pillaged the riches of the Roman Empire.

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. During the fifth century, three Western chroniclers followed in the footsteps of Jerome and Augustine to confront the flood of the ...

To the world headquarters of the Society of Jesus, adjoining the Vatican, went all the Jesuits in Rome one afternoon ... Now it faces the troubles of its fifth century. * The Vatican—to whose ...

Pope Gelasius I is said to have replaced the Roman fertility festival of Lupercalia with St. Valentine's Day in the fifth ...