ANALYSIS: New discoveries in archaeology are overturning the assumptions that used to be made about a woman’s place in ...

The Seven Wonders of the World are often seen as the pinnacle of human architecture and the perfect form of engineering, that ...

Flavius Josephus was a Jewish aristocrat who was initially a general in the Jewish rebellion of 66-71 CE, but soon ...

Dianne Lockhart was born in Kandy and grew up in Kurunegala, in idyllic surroundings, in the 1950s. Here she reminiscences about bringing up a leopard cub she named Poppaea. The rescue of this leopard ...

Archaeologists in Vienna discover a mass grave of Roman soldiers dating back 2,000 years, victims of a brutal defeat against ...

Archaeologists working at a city in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have discovered two life-sized funerary statues ...

Twice a day, the depths of the River Thames are pulled back by the power of the moon, opening up its foreshore to the ...

The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...

Archaeologists in Vienna have uncovered an incredibly rare Roman-era mass grave, possibly linked to Emperor Domitian’s ...

Construction crews in Vienna revealed Wednesday intertwined skeletal remains in a mass grave dating to the 1st-century Roman ...

Nearly 2,000 years after a volcanic eruption caused hot ash to blanket the city, construction on railway lines revealed a ...

Two life-sized statues have been unearthed in Pompeii, including a bejewelled priestess of the ancient goddess Ceres.