Unfortunately for the Romans, however, these tariffs often led to higher prices, black markets and other economic problems.

Cleopatra, and Marc Antony spent time in their decadent love affair on the Greek island of Samos in the summer of 32 B.C.

Ammonius Saccas was a Greek philosopher that revived Platonism and shaped metaphysical thought and spiritual philosophy in ...

Researchers previously assumed that some of the graves at the site were royal burials. A new study presents a different ...

Genomes sequenced from 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara have revealed a previously unknown population that inhabited the ...

Pope John Paul II has become the first Pontiff to enter a mosque during his groundbreaking pilgrimage to Syria. The country's top Muslim clerics are escorting the Pope through Damascus' Omayyad Mosque ...

An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has ...

The graveyard of Liternum, near Naples, was in use between the first century B.C.E. and the third century C.E.

Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock officially reopened her country's embassy in war-ravaged Syria during a one-day visit to Damascus on Thursday. Baerbock reopened the mission ...

Before Germany, Italy reopened its embassy last year before the fall of Assad, and Spain reopened its embassy after his ouster. Germany reopened its embassy in Damascus on Thursday, 13 years after ...

Germany has reopened its embassy in Damascus, 13 years after it was shuttered in the early phase of Syria's civil war. Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock reopened the mission during a visit to ...

A German foreign ministry source said Berlin had officially reopened its embassy with an initially small diplomatic team working in Damascus. Consular affairs and visas would continue to be ...