The boar's tusk helmet, unearthed from a tomb near Pylos, Greece, offers a fascinating glimpse into warrior culture dating back to 1500 BC.

A manuscript discovered in the Judean desert contains trial notes on an intricate tax-evasion scheme that involved forgery, ...

Legend has it that ancient Romans partied so hard that they had a special room called a vomitorium, where they'd purge their ...

If you want a name that carries with it the weight of history, why not consider one from Ancient Rome? These Ancient Roman ...

Although the team obviously can’t tie zircon minerals to the Roman Empire’s collapse, their lengthy migration inside frozen ...

In her right hand, the female figure holds laurel leaves, which Roman priestesses and priests once used to purify spaces.

While circumcision was common in many ancient cultures, the Romans considered it undesirable. In certain parts of the Empire, ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands ... He, meanwhile, is dressed ...

Archaeologists uncovered two life-size statues of a couple in a Pompeii necropolis dated to Rome’s Late Republican period.

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a ...

Two life-sized statues have been unearthed in Pompeii, including a bejewelled priestess of the ancient goddess Ceres.