The Roman Senate started life as an advisory council, filled entirely with patricians. In the last two centuries of the republic, however, it had become much more powerful and a major player in ...

In ancient Rome, the priestesses of the goddess Vesta were known as the Vestal Virgins. This was an elite group of young ...

In ancient Rome we have patricians, knights, plebeians, slaves; in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs; in almost all of these classes ...

Of the 65 victims in Kildare, almost half (30) were alleged to have been abused in one school – Dominican College, Newbridge ...

Today waffles are made with butter, however Roman philosopher Pliny the Elder writes that the use of butter differentiated the aristocratic, snobbish patricians from the commoner plebeians,” he ...

“In the case of Justinian and Theodora, all members of the senate and those as well who held the rank of patricians, whenever they entered into their presence, would prostrate themselves to the ...

In ancient Rome, otium, the Latin word signifying freedom from work and leisure time, was a dear activity to the wealthy Patricians who could happily afford not to work for a living. Fast forward ...

During the reign of Leo the Great (457-474) two patricians and brethren on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land lodged with an old widow, a Christian of Jewish descent. Seeing the many miracles wrought at a ...

and its discovery will offer insights into the unique practice of burying a hearse for Khitan patricians that ruled the Liao Dynasty. - BERNAMA-XINHUA ...

During the reign of Leo the Great (457-474) two patricians and brethren on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land lodged with an old widow, a Christian of Jewish descent. Seeing the many miracles wrought at a ...

The two main islands, North and South, meld the daringly progressive with the shamelessly incorrect, often on the same site ...

The imagery of a caged parrot is centuries old and has to do with Vasco da Gama's travels to India. The "caged parrot" ...