What was the vitriolic report of Liutprand of Cremona, whose insults towards the Byzantines created a caricature of the ...

The move for American Independence was greatly influenced by ancient Greece, particularly philosophy from the time.

For I am not ashamed of the Gospel: it is the power of God unto salvation for all those who believe, the Jew first and also ...

Ancient Greek and Roman historians reported that Cyrus of Persia, Alexander the Great, and Rome’s general Pompey encountered Amazon-like women in eastern lands.

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

Bones found at the site of an ancient fish-processing plant were used to genetically identify the species that went into a ...

Sarah Bond is a professor of classics at the University of Iowa and the author of Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in ...

Researchers reveal what Ancient Rome smelled like – and it’s disgusting - The scents of decaying bodies and human waste would have mingled in the bustling streets ...

We can probably safely assume Rome, in many areas, was likely pretty dirty and rank-smelling. That said, there’s evidence of ...

Part of a road in Cyprus collapsed, revealing a long-forgotten tomb from about 2,000 years ago, officials said. Photos show ...

Greece is finding international allies in its ongoing fight to win back the Parthenon Marbles from the British Museum in ...