Palmyra was considered one of the world's most intact ancient Roman sites. ISIS blew up many key monuments of this storied ...

A free two-day festival is set to take place in Leicester to celebrate both St George's Day and the city's Roman heritage. A ...

The earliest known Jesus mosaic inscription declaring Jesus as God, the Megiddo mosaic, was found under a prison in Israel.

Beneath a soccer field in Vienna, the remains of about 150 soldiers were discovered, indicating that a fierce battle against ...

Southeastern Italy may be better known for its beaches and burrata, but it’s also layered with ancient Greek and Roman ...

From the last two-story outhouse in the U.S. to an actual fork in the road, here are New York's top roadside attractions — ...

But finding the dead, that is unique for the entire Roman history.” Soldiers in the Roman Empire were typically cremated until the 3rd century. The pit where the bodies were deposited suggests a hasty ...

While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

Tassan was showing me a milliaire, or milestone, one of hundreds planted along the highways of Gaul at the time of the Roman Empire ... By the third century A.D., the highway was known as the ...

The army and townspeople lived apart ... During its second-century prime, Carnuntum was a key Roman capital of a province that spanned the landmass of what is now Austria and much of the Balkans.

There are believed to be two martyrs named Valentine who lived in the 3rd century. The first was a Roman soldier who, after converting to Christianity, is said to have sought to protect Christians ...