What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?

Dating back to the 7th century BC, it stretches over 13,000 miles across the Chinese landscape, snaking through rugged ...

This real-life clash of the titans was once used as a morale booster for Ottoman troops and now draws visitors from all over ...

The Romans associated pants with barbarism and eventually banned them, but the legwear eventually became commonplace nonetheless.

Across centuries and continents, formidable fires once threatened to destroy three major cities: Rome, London and Chicago.

In 1992, an English farmer lost his hammer in the middle of a field. He reached out to his friend … Continue reading "An ...

Archaeologists have struck actual gold in the village of Holztem in Parc Hosingen, Luxembourg—unearthing a trove of 141 ancient Roman ... the effigies of nine Roman emperors whose collective ...

The rarest coins come from Emperor ... Roman emperors who reigned during that time. “This is a major archaeological discovery, as it is extremely rare to be able to study in its entirety an ...

But the citrus genus has a surprising history, popping up everywhere from ancient Rome and the Renaissance to naval exploration and Casanova's famed romantic trysts. The history of citrus dates ...

archaeologists excavated the remnants of a Roman emperor’s palace. One particular find — a bright blue chunk — caught their attention and turned out to be a rare ancient material.