Researchers compared the markings found on an ancient skeleton in England to bones that had been chewed on by cheetahs, lions ...

Ancient Greek sailors, whose sails caught the winds of curiosity and ambition, were among the earliest to venture beyond ...

A Roman thought to be a gladiator stares out in a visual reconstruction of a man who met a gruesome end almost 2,000 years ...

Located in the Occitanie region of southern France, Nîmes was often referred to as the “French Rome” due to its prosperous ...

The seafarer peoples of the past who mastered the oceans were crucial in laying the foundations upon which civilizations were ...

It was a pasta factory until almost a century ago, when the Rome Opera House transformed the four-story building into a ...

Each year on Aug. 5 the church liturgical calendar commemorates the dedication of St. Mary Major (in Italian, Santa Maria Maggiore), one of the five great ancient basilicas in Rome, and ...

A new study from the University of Cambridge has uncovered strong evidence that extreme drought played a key role in one of Roman Britain’s most chaotic and devastating events: the “Barbarian ...

Renewing an ancient monastic brewing tradition in 2016 ... Amidst the decline of Catholicism in France, the reconstruction of the Abbey of St. Wandrille emerges as a powerful sign of renewal ...