For centuries, the stark white marble statues of ancient Greece and Rome have stood as timeless symbols of classical beauty.

The underground cemeteries, nearly 2,000 years old, hold some of the earliest evidence of Christian faith, belief in the ...

The skull. For many in the Western world, it’s an instant symbol of danger, a pirate’s flag snapping in the wind, or the ...

A gruesome but fascinating discovery in an ancient cemetery near York has brought fresh light to the brutal world of Roman ...

Kneijnsberg honors the Dutch scientist and inventor Christiaan Huygens with a brilliant twist on an automatic Day-Date ...

Square in Shiraz, Fars Province, tells the story of the triumph of the ancient civilization of Iran, whether it be over the ...

A pedestrian's discovery of stones helped archaeologists uncover an Ancient Roman building near a Swiss highway. The site was previously excavated in the 1860's, but forgotten.

Ancient Romans in need of a quick bite often chowed down on fried songbirds, new research suggests. A researcher working on the island of Mallorca found bones of song thrushes inside a trash pit ...

VATICAN CITY — The Roman Catholic Church bid farewell to the first New World pope Saturday in a funeral attended by monarchs, presidents and cardinals but also a different group of guests — an ...

World Ancient Roman theater sat unnoticed under Croatia city hall — until earthquake By Aspen Pflughoeft April 25, 2025 9:40 AM ...

Twenty miles south of Cairo, on the Nile's west bank, where riverfed crop fields give way to desert, the ancient site of Saqqara is marked by crumbling pyramids that emerge from the sand like ...

Ms. Cargill-Martin is a writer and classical scholar. The ascendant right wing loves ancient Rome. Its adherents love its glories. They love its ideals of hard, unbending masculinity. And they ...