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

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s an inauspicious start, one that boasts of this people’s near destruction at the hands of one of the ancient world’s superpowers in ... died – reportedly crucified on the orders of the Roman ...

First Punic settlement on Ibiza in Sa Caleta Its population in the centuries leading up to the birth of Christ would have been around ... Other mainstays of their commerce were fish sauce (known in ...