Smithsonian Magazine

Why Was This Ancient Roman Soldier’s Gravestone Hidden in a Louisiana Backyard? Archaeologists Solved the Mystery—and Helped Return the Artifact to Italy

The funerary marker, which surfaced on a New Orleans property last year, once belonged to a Roman soldier who died nearly ...
The Slovak Spectator

The Roman empire created by Slovak immigrant to Canada

Roman left Slovakia at a young age, he never forgot about his roots. He may have started his new life in Canada as a tomato ...
Greek Reporter

The Pontic Greek Genocide: One of History’s Worst Atrocities

The Greek genocide and the Pontic genocide instigated by the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish national movement is a dark ...
L'Italo-Americano

Piazza Armerina, the Palio dei Normanni, and the Mosaics of the Villa Romana del Casale

The UNESCO-listed Villa Romana del Casale and the Palio dei Normanni make Piazza Armerina one of Sicily’s most fascinating ...

Jerash Mass Grave mystery: The 6th-century plague that erased an entire city in days

In the mid-sixth century, a devastating disease swept across the Byzantine world and changed the course of entire cities. The ...