Perched on a hill overlooking the town of Alès, the site, which was salvaged before construction on modern houses began, also ...

For centuries, depictions of Cleopatra have emphasised her beauty and romantic entanglements – much more so than her ...

Ottoman imperium eventually ended in ignominy, with defeat in World War I and the Armenian Genocide – an appalling ...

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Scattered in pieces, the city's largest area of painted Roman plaster was found amid the rubble, dating back at least 1,800 ...

While modern soldiers may not adopt the testudo formation as the legions of old did, many Roman innovations did lead to ...

The decorated plaster was found dumped in a large pit at a London development site that has previously yielded other ...

Two centuries after his downfall, Napoleon remains both revered and controversial in France — but above all, unavoidable.

In the former Beverly Hills of Roman London, archaeologists were astonished to find thousands of fragments from Roman walls ...

The Getty Villa museum will look a little different when it reopens next week. While the ancient relics and art pieces were ...

Ancient Egypt had many impressive pharaohs, but which of them were especially fearsome warriors? Here are just some who ...

A plant used by the ancient Greeks for medicine, food and even contraception, was one of the most sought-after goods in the ...