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

Archaeologists excavating the Porta Sarno necropolis in Pompeii, Italy, discovered life-sized statues of a man and woman as ...

The Roman Empire has never ceased to fascinate the world, even after the fall of its western half 1½ millennia ago. And with ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly volcano wiped out the ancient Roman city . Researchers say the nearly ...

A caller to Wisconsin sports radio told the host that the former East Chicago Washington High School and Milwaukee Bucks basketball star Ulysses "Junior" Bridgeman must have fallen on hard times ...

Official history asserts that the Jewish people have existed continuously from the time of Abraham to the present day, thanks ...

Watch out for that bat behind you,” warned Luca Messina, a civil engineer who moonlights as a speleo-archaeologist with ...

Rio de Janeiro's iconic Christ the Redeemer statue switched off its lights to mark Earth Hour. New York's Empire State Building also switched off its lights and joined the global campaign on Saturday ...

A small gathering of family members stood around an open grave in the English countryside, my father’s mother lying in a casket beside us. It was a summer’s day in the village of Oaksey, near ...

At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...

Rosie O'Donnell, Daniel O’Donnell and Roisin Conaty are among the guests on Friday’s Late Late Show. In her first exclusive Irish TV interview since moving to Ireland, talk show host, comedian ...

A French politician is in the limelight for his recent and rather controversial statement. He has called for the US to return the Statue of Liberty, presented by the French people as a gift in 1884.