Archeologists recently uncovered an historic 1,600-year-old Jewish bath known as a mikveh in Ostia Antica, the archaeological site of an ancient Roman city.

Nika depicted with sword and shield, shield bearing a symbolic design possibly representing celestial bodies. Reddit theory ...

The Rod of Asclepius is a striking emblem: a simple staff with a lone snake coiled around it, universally acknowledged as a symbol of medicine and healing.

In 1880, when Social Security’s baby name lists start, Milo ranked 339th. It slowly dropped, leaving the top thousand in 1966. Now, it's bouncing back.

A Finnish court found a Russian mercenary guilty on Friday of committing war crimes in Ukraine in 2014, sentencing him to life in prison. Voislav Torden, a Russian citizen known as Yan Petrovsky, was ...

Voislav Torden, a commander in a Russian paramilitary group, was sentenced to life in prison for the attack and mutilation of ...

Inventions occasionally paint a very different picture of our ancient world. Ancient inventions can be groundbreaking. They give us more insight into past cultures, people, and technology.

On a more triumphant note, black cats are now seen as a symbol of defiance and perseverance, given their ominous history. Outside of the West, ancient folklore detailing the positive connotations ...

But this idea isn’t new. Long before TikTok trends and self-help bestsellers, ancient civilizations from India to Egypt built entire belief systems around the power of thought. Here’s how ...

From the rover's point of view on the ground, it's hard to tell, but this ancient shoreline on Mars seemed to lie inside a 2,050-mile-wide (3,300-kilometer-wide) impact crater called Utopia Basin.

How have events and developments in the distant past shaped our world? Dive into topics spanning ancient Greece, the imperial might of Rome and the history of the Middle East and Egypt from the third ...