While we tend to think of memes when it comes to quick and easily digestible internet content, the truth is that, as humans ...

On July 23, a retiree who was vacationing at a seaside resort along the Black Sea in northern Bulgaria was walking down Varna ...

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

The discovery of artifacts near the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun may be the oldest known evidence of a ritual known as the ...

Once Christianity took over the Roman Empire, its emperors were placed in sarcophagi rather than cremated, as Christian dogma (both Catholic and Orthodox) did not approve of cremation. Only in 1963 ...

Despite being uncovered over a century ago, Tutankhamun's tomb is still yielding secrets, according to a new study by Dr ...

It housed a main burial chamber and several sarcophagi, one of which contained a female skeleton ... centuries before being converted into a healing sanctuary in the late Roman period. The artifacts ...

The king's mummy and sarcophagus are missing from the royal tomb, which is the second of its kind unearthed this year ...

Yet, despite this, there are records of Lars Porsena subsequently attacking the Roman city of Aricia. Clearly, there was still conflict between the two powers. A detail from the sarcophagus known as ...