A nearly yearlong excavation project in northern Switzerland is offering a glimpse into life in some of the Roman empire’s ...

DNA reveals that the people of Carthage, a powerful independent colony founded by the Phoenicians, had little genetic ...

For the first time, bite marks made by a large cat, possibly an African lion, have been identified on the bones of what is ...

Archaeologist Sarah Roth explained: "Here we see a particularly close bond of the owner to his horse. Even after about 1,800 ...

A mum who named her daughter after a former Roman emperor has said she won't consider changing it even though her family hate ...

In addition to ancient Roman pottery, jewelry, rare coins, and evidence of a road system, the 18-acre site in Newington, ...

Core elements of Roman law can be traced back to the ancient Greek world. Roman law has been fundamental to the foundations ...

Here is a list of the garments you may see the new pope wearing once he steps out onto the central balcony of St. Peter’s ...

The Via Egnatia, also known as the Ancient Macedonia Road, is a historic Roman road that stretches over 700 miles across four ...

There’s nothing new about our modern obsession with playing and watching sports – they were popular in ancient Greek and ...

The Appian Way Regional Park in Rome announced its recent farewell to a "beautiful" stone head dating back to antiquity. It ...

Although molecular traces of ancient wines have been found staining pottery walls, this is the oldest wine in a liquid state ...