It’s not every day that an event from ancient Armenian history is played out on stage, let alone in an opera. But that’s ...

Matera in southern Italy, is known as a "Second Bethlehem" and is home to a World Heritage Site. It's one of the most ...

Bones discovered in a cesspit in Mallorca show this item was likely fried and served by urban street vendors to lower and ...

Archaeologists in Austria recently unearthed a trio of Roman era mosaics, which shed light onto life in ancient times. The works were found among the ruins of a Roman building complex in Thalheim bei ...

A new exhibition is spotlighting the women who have long been sidelined in histories of the Roman Empire—from mothers and weavers to entrepreneurs and influential tavern owners ...

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 ...

Female gladiators were a rarity in Ancient Rome, but the role they played was fascinating. Read on to find out more.

Long before modern plumbing, the Romans built a sanitation system so advanced, it arguably saved more lives than any ...

Ancient human figurines have been found. Some of the oldest known paintings in the world are in the Cave of the Castle, in Cantabria in the north of Spain. Thought to be more than 40,000 years old ...

A Roman slave girl in ancient Gaul, Blandine endured torture, lions and scorn to bear witness to Christ — and became a pillar ...

Sarcophagus of the Spouses, one of the most celebrated artifacts of Etruscan art will undergo a restoration in full view of ...

As he publishes the second book in his acclaimed Nero trilogy, master historical novelist Conn Iggulden on why we are drawn ...