When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

The geopolitical importance of Cyprus has been both a blessing and a curse, sparking centuries of conflict over control of ...

(Some of the early adopters, he says, fully merged their finances—isn’t that a red flag?) The group is small ... gospel carried a stigma in the Roman Empire would be a serious understatement.

Ancient historians described them as a people not to be trifled with. Xenophon, the fourth-century B.C. Greek warrior and ... While building a vast empire that included much of present-day Syria ...

British author J. R. R. Tolkien's tale of the fall of Númenor was inspired by the ancient Greek myth of Atlantis.

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures from ancient Greek and Roman mythology. In Greek and Roman ...

An entire ancient Egyptian settlement from the New Kingdom, also known as the Golden Age of Egypt, surfaced from beneath Greek ruins at the site of Kom el-Nugus near Alexandria Among the artifacts ...

Thucydides fought in the Peloponnesian War on the Athenian side. His world was steeped in the sensibilities of Greek tragedy, and his historical narrative carries that imprint throughout.

It eventually declined with the rise of the Roman Empire. The ruins of Lefkada’s ancient Greek amphitheater were first identified in 1901 by German archaeologist E. Kruger. The discovery was ...

The lecture hall was discovered during excavations at Agrigento, the site of the largest ancient Greek settlement in Sicily. Photo by Thomas Lappi and Monika Trümper, FU Berlin, Institute of ...

After a century-long wait, an excavation has finally revealed the only ancient theatre on Greece's Ionian Islands. Ancient Lefkada’s theatre was first discovered in 1901, but it took until now ...