Nestled in the Sinai mountains, the ancient St Catherine's Monastery has been the centre of recent tensions after an Egyptian ...

Alexander had a love-hate relationship with his father, King Philip II of Macedonia. While at times he appeared to be the ...

This individual likely died and was buried in the middle to late third century A.D ... Eboracum was home to the 6th Legion of the Roman Empire, which had several soldiers who came from North ...

What was so special about Belisarius was that he accepted the bargain. Doing the right thing was enough. Serving his country, his God, and doing his duty faithfully was all that mattered. Any ...

From Hercules and Archimedes to Roman conquest, Billy Cotsis traces the rise and fall of Greek colonies across the Western Mediterranean — with Syracuse as their final stronghold ...

It’s early springtime in Paris and the first, frothy cherry blossoms have escaped their buds, although down by the River ...

On this occasion, the famous cyclist Amr Selim embarked on a bike journey to the places visited by the Holy Family in the ...

Many people associate Spartans with dramatic stories and larger-than-life portrayals, but much of that image is shaped by ...

Excavations at the Roman fort Magna in northern England have already yielded three ancient leather shoes, one of which is ...

In 1966, archaeologists discovered a Roman building measuring over 7,000 square feet. It turns out it was a small part of a ...

Archaeologists made a shocking discovery in a sixth-century copper bucket found several decades ago at the famous English excavation site of Sutton Hoo, according to a statement from the National ...

The fragments of the sixth century Byzantine bucket have fascinated ... or it was acquired by a mercenary Saxon soldier. “We think that the bucket had a life prior to burial,” Howarth wrote ...