Emperors have come and gone but, today, the leaders of this Roman monument live and die by pincers, not swords ...

Share adventures with a girl who was born to be a dragon, discover if three sisters can survive two bomb blasts and a life-changing war, meet the animals who witnessed life in Ancient Rome, and take a ...

The Monastery of Panagia Yiatrissa (“Mary the Healer”) in Kastania, on the slopes of Taygetus, is traditionally believed to stand on the ruins of an ancient temple dedicated to Athena. In villages ...

With the penny being ushered out of circulation early in the 21st century, theologians, historians, archaeologists and numismatists continue to glean insights from coins of the first century, when ...

Sulla's ruthless campaigns in Greece, including the devastating siege of ancient Athens, marked a turning point in Roman history.

A Budapest pizzeria is serving a limited pizza that uses only ingredients ancient Romans could have eaten. In 2023, archaeologists uncover a Pompeii fresco of a topped flatbread. It inspires ...

Archaeologists in Spain have uncovered an elephant bone from 2,200 years ago, and they believe it belonged to an animal that ...

The same travertine quarries near Rome that built St. Peter’s Basilica and the Colosseum are still being dug out today.

TIVOLI, Italy (AP) — Long ago, when Romans wanted to build a new temple, they would head to the nearby quarries of Tivoli, chisel out blocks of porous rock called lapis tiburtinus — now known as ...

It was the summer of 2020, and researcher Walter Crist was wandering around the exhibits inside a Dutch museum dedicated to the presence of the ancient Roman empire in the Netherlands. As a scientist ...

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