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.

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

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 ...

One account, written in the mid-second century or later, and not included in the New Testament, even claimed that Jesus’ crucifixion was not ordered by Pilate. Instead, it blamed Herod Antipas, the ...

The Gupta Empire is widely regarded as India’s Golden Age. Although it existed for only about 230 years (from the 3rd century ...