Almost 1800 years after Rome’s founding, the people we call Byzantines still thought of themselves as part of the same ...

In the ancient city of Sillyon in Antalya on the Turkish Riviera, archaeologists have uncovered the tomb of Menodora.

I recently took a trip to Washington, D.C. to visit a myriad of war memorials. I was in awe of the grandeur and honor they ...

Excavations in Tarquinia reveal that the ancient Etruscan city, famed for its tombs, continued to thrive under Romans.

A new study shows how thinkers of ancient Greece and the Roman Empire helped establish the principles that guide modern ...

The Piasts, Poland's first royal dynasty, are the subject of recent, ground-breaking DNA research that questions conventional ...

Built by Leo XIII but never visited by him, the Aventine Hill church now welcomes his successor for its 125th anniversary.

“I’m just a cultural Jew,” I would tell people, knowing nothing about Jewish culture.

Renovations on a soccer field outside of Vienna, Austria, uncovered a Roman-era mass grave that held the remains of roughly ...

Jenn Monahan used to enjoy spinning wool before she became a yarn producer. ‘It was a hobby that led me to meet the people who keep rare breeds like the Norfolk Horn, and I developed so much respect ...

On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered ancient Egyptian ...