With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from the sun and ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

It appears that the culprit at Tall el-Hammam was a small asteroid similar to the one that knocked down 80 million trees in Tunguska, Russia in 1908. It would have been a much smaller version of the ...

Had enough of the crowds? Once you’ve seen Rome, consider a day trip to these lesser known but no less beautiful towns for ...

Some 100 major temples towered over the landscape of Roman Egypt ... the rest of the temple. Larger-than-life scenes carved on each of its exterior walls offered ancient worshippers a mere ...

Renovations on a soccer field outside of Vienna, Austria, uncovered a Roman-era mass grave that held the remains of roughly 150 males. Experts believe the site was likely a battlefield where a ...

Oragadam, an ancient village, is home to two historic temples, one for Rama and the other for Siva. The Vadamallishwarar (Siva) temple is situated on a small hillock which has about a hundred ...

King Charles and Queen Camilla were pictured at Rome's Temple of Venus King Charles ... They stood in the ancient Temple of Venus, honouring a goddess of love, during a four-day trip which ...

King Charles and Queen Camilla found an appropriately symbolic place in Rome to pose for photographs on the second day of their state visit to Italy. They stood in the ancient Temple of Venus ...

The Plague of Justinian, which affected the Eastern Roman Empire in the 540s, may also have been caused in part by a colder climate. Christopher Spencer at Queen’s University in Kingston ...