ANCIENT Romans used human poo to treat common ailments, archaeologists have revealed. The grim discovery is the first direct evidence that the ancient civilisation really was keeping human faeces ...

Digenes Akritas is an epic poem from the Byzantine Empire. It follows the exploits of the titular hero in the Byzantine borderlands.

In the mythology of ancient Greece and Rome, the harpies were a group of animal-human hybrid monsters like the sirens and the ...

Olympique Lyonnais are close to finalising the signing of Ukrainian international Roman Yaremchuk (30), according to a report from L’Équipe. The striker is expected to be loaned from Olympiakos, ...

Researchers are using X-rays to discover invisible markings left on ancient parchment containing information from the Greek ...

Roman gods look familiar for a reason: much of Roman mythology was shaped by Greek influence. This video breaks down the key similarities and differences between major gods like Zeus and Jupiter, Hera ...

From the mischievous Cupid of Roman art to Plato’s lofty ideas of Platonic love, Greek and Roman literature reveals a complex, often chaotic view of romance. Poets like Ovid and Sulpicia chronicled ...

Evidence of ancient occupation around Via Pietralata was found in the 1990s, and excavations of the area of the shrine began ...

A number of Roman wills reveal people leaving their heirs silver and gold in the form of bars, plates or ingots. Aside from metals, agricultural commodities were also very popular, especially grain, ...

In different passage, Aulus tells us about some bookstalls he came across when he arrived by ship at the port of Brundisium ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a Roman sports stadium nearly 1,800 years old in the ancient city of Syedra on Turkiye’s Mediterranean coast. It hugs the rocky hillside in a smooth curve, with stonework ...

A shepherd in Seydikemer, Muğla Province, has discovered a Roman-era funerary stele bearing Greek inscriptions and reliefs of a married couple, dating to the 1st–3rd century CE. Experts believe the ...