Ancient Rome is viewed by historians as one of the greatest civilizations ever built. Much of what Western Civilization is today can be attributed to Ancient Rome, including language, politics, ...

Ancient Greeks saw Olympus as a divine realm of Zeus and the gods, not a mountain. Its link to Mount Olympus emerged in later traditions.

Physicians of the Roman empire had a knack for making remedies from an assortment of components from various animals, ...

An international research team has secured more than €1 million to investigate a recently uncovered Roman cult district. Roman-period archaeology in Hesse has reached a new stage of progress. The Germ ...

Imagine a city that thrived for thousands of years, its streets alive with workshops, markets and the laughter of children, yet that is remembered for a single night of fire. That city is Troy.

Study author Cenker Atila, an archaeologist at Sivas Cumhuriyet University in Turkey told Livescience happened upon the ...

Dark-brown flakes discovered inside a 1,900-year-old Roman glass vial are the first direct evidence for the use of human ...

Augustus Tolton was ordained in Rome in 1886. Previously, the only Black Catholic priests in the US had been men who ...

What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?

Hinduism gained ground in the region in the early centuries of the Common Era because it provided elites with a fully-fleshed metaphysical package along with literacy.

Ilia Malinin has completely revolutionized the world of figure skating. Known to fans as the “Quad God,” he achieved what was ...

The story is told of how the Armenian king Trdat (also known as Tiridates III) was physically transformed into a wild boar as ...