Five years on from starting work at San Casciano, an Etruscan and Roman thermal baths, bronze and gold treasure continue to ...

Dating to the fifth or sixth century B.C.E., the vessel could provide new insights into the relationship between the ancient ...

The latest findings cast light on the history of a major civilization that is considered to be one of the world's first empires.

The fall of Constantinople, the last bastion of the Roman Empire, triggered an intellectual exodus that would ignite the ...

The Thucydides' Trap examines the risk of conflict when a rising power challenges an established one, from ancient Greece to ...

The Pillars of Hercules are mentioned in Greek mythology frequently, but what were they? Lets examine the answer to that ...

Researchers have investigated a medicinal clay that was "highly prized" as a therapeutic for various ailments in antiquity.

Paleogenomics has finally solved a question that has puzzled researchers for decades: Where did syphilis come from?

ArtNet News reports that a portrait of the Byzantine emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos was discovered during restoration ...

Scylla and Charybdis steel chairs take their design inspiration from the namesake sea monsters from Greek mythology.

Made from limestone and measuring about 55 feet in length, it is believed to be the tomb of an ancient hero, according to a ...

A shipwreck dating back to the 5th and 6th centuries B.C. was discovered earlier this year off the coast of Sicily, Italian ...