Historian Josephine Quinn explores how the Phoenicians and their great colony, Carthage, built a maritime empire that once overshadowed both Greece and Rome ...

The largest libraries of the ancient world weren’t mere book collections. They were centers of power, education, and survival across empires.

The ancient Athenian writer Isocrates (436–338 BC) once commented: "Many cities judge those who excel in the athletic contests to be worthy of greater rewards than those who, by painstaking thought ...

Thousands of years before Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert got under President Trump's skin, ancient Greek and Roman poets and philosophers paid a heavy price for displeasing heads of state.

The Rome Capitol Theatre, 220 W. Dominick St., will present a double feature of two 1940s horror classics on Saturday, Oct. 4 in Rome, New York.

This video traces the remarkable history of the domestic pigeon, from its origins as the rock dove to its many roles in human society. Once prized in Rome for its meat, plumage, and status as a luxury ...

Myth and Marble,” an exhibition of the Torlonia Collection at the Kimbell Art Museum, has been thousands of years in the making.

Archaeologists excavating a site within Rome’s Metro Line C have discovered three bronze medals from the 15th century which bear inscriptions of Pope Paul II, Archaeology.org reported. The artifacts ...

Surrounded by ancient Roman ruins and pretty streets, Pula in Croatia is a hidden gem. Standing within the amphitheatre, it was hard to believe I wasn't exploring Rome, Italy.