Ancient Romans were big fans of olive oil, consuming an average of five gallons per person per year by one estimate. Beyond ...

Mark Lewis Tizzoni, Assistant Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies, has co-authored a new paper in The Palgrave Handbook of African Christianity from Apostolic Times to the Present.

From the parapets of Le Kef, on a rocky spur in northwestern Tunisia, one can see deep into the mountains of Algeria, whose border is a short distance away. A fort of some kind has existed here since ...

OUIDAH, Benin (AP) — In a basilica built in the heartland of Africa’s Voodoo religion, Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday unveiled a treatise outlining the role of the Roman Catholic Church on the ...

Now predominantly Muslim, North Africa was once a Christian heartland, producing Catholic popes who left their mark on the Church to this day. Their papacies were in the era of the Roman Empire, which ...

As with every humanities discipline, classics has responded to Black Lives Matter with justifiable introspection. As the study of the ancient world, and particularly that of the Mediterranean cultures ...

Millions of people travel all over the world to witness the remnants of the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire is, to date, one of the most influential civilizations. As a culture with exponential ...

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Roman art personified Rome as a goddess linked to Peace and Liberty. It depicted its province Africa with scorpion, lion and cornucopia, wearing an elephant scalp and subservient to Rome. After the ...