For centuries, ships carrying merchants, soldiers and explorers passed through the narrow waters linking the Atlantic Ocean ...
The funerary marker, which surfaced on a New Orleans property last year, once belonged to a Roman soldier who died nearly ...
In 468, the Roman Empire launched a massive naval expedition against the Vandals in North Africa. The plan was meant to restore Roman power, but it turned into one of the greatest disasters in ancient ...
The discovery was made at Oxyrhynchus, an ancient burial site in central Egypt, by a team from the University of Barcelona ...
From the fall of Roman kings to the streets of Kyiv, revolutions have repeatedly shattered existing power structures and forced the world to rebuild. This is a data-driven sweep through history's most ...
Spanish archaeologists from the University of Cádiz uncover a 2,400-year-old ship graveyard in the Bay of Gibraltar, ...
It’s an ancient Roman relic named for a fascist leader. The debate over its future is part ideology and part historic ...
Archaeologists have found a papyrus copy of Homer’s Iliad in the gut of an ancient Egyptian mummy, the first time ever that a ...
As part of a longstanding effort to help Italy track down its missing treasures, the U.S. returned hundreds of ancient archaeological finds this week ...
The Baths of Caracalla, the sumptuously decorated public baths complex near the Colosseum, were long a place of leisure, healthcare and relaxation for ancient Romans. On Sunday, the place provided a ...
An Egyptian mummy, buried 2,000 years ago together with a copy of the epic poem "The Iliad" by the ancient Greek poet Homer, ...
Some cities make a trip feel worthwhile from the first walk. Besançon, Cēsis, České Budějovice, Aosta, Lappeenranta, and ...