Who were the women who inhabited ancient Pompeii? A new exhibition of art, objects, and personal testimonies has the answers.

Roman society was, in many ways, surprisingly sophisticated. It built remarkable things like aqueducts that snaked over long ...

Emperor Qin Shi Huang of the Qin dynasty was the first emperor of ancient China and ruled from 221 B.C. to 210 B.C. He's most ...

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Tourism is surging in many places around the world—swarmed national parks, throngs of visitors amassing in churches and ...

The notion that Manu Smriti verse 1.91 enforces servitude has been sustained by colonial scholars and contemporary critics ...

Rome is a city shrouded in myth yet full of potent physical reminders of many historical triumphs and tragedies. Walking the ...

DAY in central London, a 44-year-old woman named Lucy Peel descended a slippery stairway on the bank of the River Thames to ...

By analyzing ancient and modern DNA, scientists are uncovering the genetic origins of the Greek people, shaped over millennia ...

Archaeologists in Rome have uncovered the remains of an ... Archaeologists identified several signs of restorations throughout the ancient structure, including different building techniques.

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Rome, often called the “Eternal City” and the “Capital of the World,” is one of the most famous cities in Europe and beyond.