A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the ...

When, at a slightly older age, I began to study death and the ancient world what struck me most ... Earthquakes, too, took a very heavy toll. The Roman poet Horace’s advice to “seize the ...

"In ancient cultures, Egyptian, Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Indian, Persian, Chinese, and Greek, there existed a concept of the sacred mountain of the world upon which the tree of life was ...

After an earthquake damaged a city hall in Croatia, renovation work on the building’s basement unearthed the ruins of an ancient Roman theater. Photo from Croatia’s Ministry of Culture and ...

The Carthaginian empire left its mark in history, particularly well-known for the three large-scale "Punic Wars" with the rising Roman Republic ... of the Ancient Mediterranean, co-directed ...

Aerial views of the Vatican showed a patchwork of colors — black from the dark garb of the world's leaders ... as the procession made its way around Rome's ancient monuments, including the ...

Aerial views of the Vatican showed a patchwork of colours – black from the dark garb of the world’s leaders ... procession made its way around Rome’s ancient monuments, including the ...