Britain’s King Charles III has hailed “brilliant” restoration work preserving the Colosseum in Rome after posing in front of ...

Charles and Camilla marvelled at the near 2,000-year-old Colosseum on the eve of their 20th wedding anniversary.

Ancient DNA extracted from a sediment core from a high-altitude Pyrenean lake in Spain reveals that fish may have been added ...

Spokeo examined State Symbols USA and other resources to explore why state seals are significant and how they help us ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...

Archaeologists have recently unearthed the remarkably well-preserved remains of a dog from ancient Rome, shedding light on ...

One theory points to the festival of Eostre, a pagan tradition of carrying baskets of young seedlings or eggs as an offering ...

Meg Walker studies at Griffith University. The team receives funding from The Australian Research Council. She is affiliated with Cave Divers Association of Australia. Joseph Monks, is an industry ...

Several of these texts mentioned anointing statues of Greek and Roman deities—including one depicting Artemis, the Greek goddess of wild animals, in Sicily. Statues of rulers, such as Egypt’s ...

Animals have never merely plodded alongside us (often without choice or recognition) through history—they’ve shaped it. Major Charles White Whittlesey and roughly 500 members of the US 77th ...

Some were even perfumed, in an attempt to transform them into the lifelike embodiments of gods, goddesses, and rulers. “A white marble statue was not intended to be perceived as a statue in ...

The website said: “She was originally a goddess of war, hence her armour and spear. In Roman history, Quinquatria, a five-day festival where no blood would be shed on the first day, honoured ...