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Canada finds itself at a moment of reckoning. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced his resignation as recent polls place his governing Liberal Party at its lowest support levels in decades, with voter intent hovering at just 16 per cent.

People throughout history have deliberately tried to forget corrupt or criminal leaders who offend the public’s sense of morality or justice. The term damnatio memoriae (“condemnation of memory”) describes this kind of deliberate forgetting in ancient times.

According to the World Obesity Atlas, 42% of the global population will be overweight or obese in 2025. Lack of physical activity is one of the primary causes. Experts regard this as a serious health problem and in Greco-Roman times, too, doctors thought being overweight was bad for one’s health.

Grab that gladius and get ready to fight

Researchers say a villa buried by the eruption in A.D. 79 corresponds with records of the Roman emperor's death in A.D. 14.

Archaeologists have discovered lavish and grisly burials the world over.

Archaeologists think the house belonged to a senatorial family during the last years of Rome's Republic.

Archaeologists in Germany have unearthed the foundations of two temples and a shallow circular ditch at a former Roman camp.

The historian was speaking amid a trend on social media that highlights how often men ponder the time of togas, swords and emperors.