Baby names inspired by Greek history and mythology are gaining popularity in the US. From Athena to Zeus, there is a name for your new baby.

Court documents from an ancient tax fraud and forgery case show that tax evasion was an issue even 2,000 years ago.

A mix of ancient divinities ... became Venus in the Roman pantheon. This mural, “The Birth of Venus,” painted before A.D. 79 and found at the House of Venus in the Shell in Pompeii, depicts ...

We must look upon Advent in two different lights: first, as a time of preparation, properly so called, for the birth of our Saviour ... they at least show us how ancient was the practice of ...

Astronomy and astrology were deeply intertwined in ancient civilizations ... which was later adopted by Greek and Roman cultures. They divided the sky into twelve constellations, each ...

But how do those ancient texts ... which had subjugated Palestine some 60 years before Jesus’ birth. Almost all Jews chafed under Rome’s ironfisted rule, with its oppressive taxes and ...

Perhaps contemporary Americans have an intuitive sense that Roman history might ... republic but that eventually gave birth to the greatest empire in the ancient world. The death of the republic ...

Amber Roessner is a professor at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville’s School of Journalism & Media and author of “Jimmy Carter and the Birth of ... The Rest Hoard of ancient Roman coins ...

The Hebrew Bible, which Christians call the Old Testament, offers instructions about celebrating a Jubilee every 50 years.

In ancient societies, like Rome, some people dressed or lived as a gender different from the one they were assigned at birth, though their identities weren’t understood in the same way we think ...

the ancient Roman equivalent of "Merry Christmas ... So in the 4th century, they created a rival festival to mark Jesus' birth: Christmas. The Bible doesn't explicitly state the date on which ...

The Roman Catholic Church has consistently condemned ... life in the womb originates in Christianity’s Jewish roots. The ancient Jewish world was much different from the surrounding cultures ...