When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

Step back in time to envision daily life in the mighty Roman Empire.

In recent decades, some Christians have moved away from the theory of penal substitutionary atonement, which summons up the ...

A weakening of Earth’s magnetic field known as the Laschamps event would have increased the threat of solar radiation, ...

When digging through the rubble of an ancient church foundation, archaeologists found something unexpected. As crews in Rome ...

From Rome’s holiest texts to a Chinese manuscript that wouldn’t have fit inside a shipping container, here’s our top ten list of the most important ancient documents that no longer exist ...

NPS / Alamy Ancient human footprints, preserved in a dry lakebed at White Sands National Park in New Mexico, reveal remarkably vivid vignettes of life in the late Pleistocene: children jumping in ...

Ancient Homo sapiens may have benefited from sunscreen, tailored clothes and the use of caves during the shifting of the ...