Yet today, the only reference you will find to her in pop culture is as a minor character in the hack-and-slash video game Dante’s Inferno (where she is called “the greediest woman in all of Rome”).

New discoveries in archaeology are overturning the assumptions that used to be made about a woman’s place in society all the ...

with a woman’s head. The ancient story of the Aeneid, by Latin poet Virgil, describes the story’s hero Aeneas encountering harpies on his quest to found Rome, saying: Maiden faces have these ...

Experts think the woman, who is holding laurel leaves, may have been a priestess Cool Finds The graveyard of Liternum, near Naples, was in use between the first century B.C.E. and the third ...

Following the death of Pope Francis at age 88, interest in Nostradamus centuries-old prophecies has surged, particularly ...

The ascendant right wing loves ancient Rome. Its adherents love its glories ... The Story of the Most Notorious Woman of the Roman World.” ...

Against the ancient backdrop of Rome’s Colosseum ... a blend of grace and responsibility.” A young woman carries the cross during Rome's Way of the Cross ceremony at the Colosseum while ...