When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

Against the ancient backdrop of Rome’s Colosseum, thousands gathered Friday evening for the solemn Via Crucis procession, ...

Tassan was showing me a milliaire, or milestone, one of hundreds planted along the highways of Gaul at the time of the Roman Empire ... we came across the ancient road's second-best-preserved ...

From the location of the “place of skulls” to ancient Jewish burial rites, here’s what archaeologists do—and don’t—know about ...

The trail’s 215 miles connect ancient road networks with modern hiking paths, tracing rivers, twisting up gorges and traversing the ruins of Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine cities. Map ...

Historians recently unveiled a rare 13th-century document depicting the tales of King Arthur and Merlin – and its survival is considered a miracle. The discovery was announced by the University ...

A chunk of Roman masonry, thought to be the last remaining original piece of the Roman fort of Mamucium, lies behind a metal ...

Archaeologists are set to spend the next two years examining 4,000 stamped bricks from the Roman city of Trier. They aim to uncover insights into ancient brick production and distribution.

As to why it's there, it's believed that the ancient road once connected Korčula to a now-submerged Neolithic site that was once home to hunter-gatherers around 4,900 BC. Advert And it wasn't a ...

Credit: Public Domain / Wikimedia Commons After the tremendously successful reign of Basil II, the eleventh century signaled a turn of fortunes in a far more negative direction for the Byzantine ...