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.

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

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

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

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

The Greeks were the most inventive, developing techniques for swaying voters, for stealing elections, and disqualifying opponents from running for office. Some of the Athenian politicians were as ...

Venturing into an Etruscan tomb once meant crawling through rubble, breathing dust, and crawling into rooms excavated more ...

Allen Blickle, founding member and former drummer of Grammy-nominated heavy metal band Baroness, has died at age 42. The news was announced by Baroness frontman John Baizely through music publication ...

Italian archaeologists recently discovered an ancient Roman bathhouse submerged underwater – and it may have belonged to Rome’s greatest orator. The Campi Flegrei Archaeological Park, located in ...

In the rich tapestry of ancient Roman history, few stories combine military history, religious symbolism, and animal heroism quite like the tale of the Sacred Geese of the Capitol. While often ...

A centurion wearing sneakers and shades? AI image generators sometimes take serious liberties with history. Researchers in classical studies have now developed a tool that creates images of antiquity ...