His election reflected a broader geographical shift in the church. Although the Vatican has been Catholicism’s spiritual and ...

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

Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the "Barbarian Conspiracy," a pivotal moment in the history of Roman ...

For the first time, an archaeological investigation has conclusively documented the existence of a brückenkopfkastell—a Roman ...

Nick Angeloff, an archaeologist at Cal Poly Humboldt, has called the developments at Gradishte a once-in-a-lifetime discovery ...

He’s the much-loved, much-bearded figure of Great British art. A new Paris exhibition will show you why.

A manuscript discovered in the Judean desert contains trial notes on an intricate tax-evasion scheme that involved forgery, ...

In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the ...

All parts of the Greek and later Roman world were built upon exploiting either their conquered foes or those with the simple misfortune of being born in the wrong place at the wrong time. Despite its ...

Amateur metal detectorists uncovered a stunning collection of silver jewelry, the first evidence of a Dacian settlement in ...

Archaeologists launch a project to analyze 4,000 Roman bricks from Trier, Germany, revealing insights into ancient building ...

VIENNA (AP) — As construction crews churned up dirt to renovate a Vienna soccer field last October, they happened upon an unprecedented find: A heap of intertwined skeletal remains in a mass grave ...