While the media once pulled spectacular pranks on April 1, they now have to tread carefully with fake news. A look at some ...

In ancient Rome, high-ranking generals and politicians used unique perfumes to set themselves apart — and now scientists have ...

It was inspired by earlier statues such as Aphrodite of Knidos and the Medici Venus. Credit: The Met / Public Domain Venus de’ Medici is one of the more recent examples among the most famous statues ...

A cat will be at the statue’s feet, a reference to Townsend-Warner’s love of cats, the animal figure modelled on Dorchester’s famous Susie the Cat. The writer last year won a public poll of ...

Josiah Osgood’s account of the Roman statesman’s career, Lawless Republic, is a startlingly prescient tale of politics ...

The assassination of Julius Caesar was reenacted in Rome at the exact same place where it had taken place 2,000 years ago. Credit: Flickr/ Colin Bewes CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 On March 15th, a group of ancient ...

Rome's Largo Argentina site to host historical re-enactment of Caesar's assassination as well as performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Rome will mark the Ides of March and the assassination of ...

Before the assassination, the Ides of March was best known as a festival. The popular time for feasting and drinking marked the festival of Roman deity Anna Perenna. It was also traditionally the time ...

Head to Piazza Tre Martiri to admire important monuments such as a statue of Julius Caesar, which has been placed where the Roman general delivered a famous speech. Other ancient sites include the ...

how Donald Trump’s whim-based decision-making resembles that of the dictator Julius Caesar, and what we can learn from the fall of the Roman Republic. Plus, how the Supreme Court is responding ...