Was the famous story of the Great Fire of Alexandria just a myth? Did Christians really burn the Library or is the truth more ...

Among the buildings waiting to be fully restored is L’Aquila’s massive, daunting castle, built by southern Italy’s Spanish ...

Blending Cities Skylines and the Roman world, city building game Pompeii The Legacy finally has a launch date and it's coming ...

Like the Byzantines, whose empire survived on ceremony long after it lost its soul, Nigeria developed the rituals of state ...

With a smartphone and an Instagram account, twin brothers Charbel and Giovanni Lteif are closing in on 800,000 followers with ...

Some of the greatest suffering in my life has come not from strangers, but from members of my community, Jews I trusted.

Archaeologists in northern Britain discovered 13-inch shoes at the ancient Roman Magna Fort, raising questions about the ...

Apollodorus of Damascus, the Greek architectural genius who built Emperor Trajan’s Rome, from his Column to the longest ...

The great mass of waters killed many thousands of people by drowning … the lifeless bodies of shipwrecked persons lay ...

Historians are teaming up with the AI model Aeneas and its database of of 176,000 Roman inscriptions to uncover the mysteries ...

Concealed for decades, a huge network of chambers beneath Rome’s Capitoline Hill is to be opened up to the public, revealing ...

The Western Roman Empire famously ended in A.D. 476 when its last emperor abdicated the throne. But the city of Rome ...