From a mosaic of flip-flops in Sicily to Cicero’s possible sauna, new discoveries prove that bathing has always been about more than getting clean. Ancient Roman flip-flop mosaic from the Villa Romana ...

For a city in the hinterlands of the Roman Empire, attaining eleutheria was highly coveted. The word means liberty in Greek and granted a city the right to run its own administrative and legal affairs ...

The lion’s share of today’s recycled clothing fabrics are made from plastic bottles, even as used textiles pile up in landfills or get incinerated. But that’s beginning to change. Several companies ...

There haven’t been many updates on Roman Anthony since he injured his oblique earlier this month. But Red Sox manager Alex Cora provided one on Wednesday. “He’s walking on a treadmill,” Cora said on ...

President Trump continues his assault on women’s rights, the manosphere seeps ever more sickeningly into the mainstream, and as if by feminist magic, Alice Birch, eviscerator of the patriarchy, ...

Roman religion was divided into two. Spirits watched over people, families and households, and the paterfamilias was in charge of the household worship that honored them. Romans also had a set of ...

The “High Potential” season 2 premiere may have just given viewers the answer to a long-standing mystery. During season 1 of the ABC crime drama, intellectually gifted police consultant Morgan Gillory ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a rare hoard of 1,600-year-old copper coins in Galilee, and the coins may have been stashed there during the last known Jewish revolt against the Romans. Researchers ...

Even Gwyneth Paltrow cringes at herself sometimes. When we met to discuss her new fashion line Gwyn, she admitted that she “hated” doing the outfit posts her 9.2 million Instagram followers devour.

One of the brightest stars in P.J. Flecks 2026 recruiting class continues to put up eye-popping numbers during his final season of high school ball. On Friday night, top in-state commit Roman Voss ...

The Boston Red Sox are going to begin their 2025 playoff run on Tuesday. In preparation for their final regular season game of the campaign on Sunday, the Red Sox announced that their injured players, ...

Not gonna lie – Alice Birch’s fragmentary portrait of masculinity, studied over 150 years through the evolving form of the novel, is an effortful watch, but a rewarding one. It features superb ...