DNA reveals that the people of Carthage, a powerful independent colony founded by the Phoenicians, had little genetic ...

Archaeologists have discovered a 2,000-year-old Roman sandal near an ancient military fort in Oberstimm, Germany. The highly ...

Virgil was one of Rome's most prolific poets, but how much was he influenced by ancient Greece and Greek writers like Homer?

A Roman thought to be a gladiator stares out in a visual reconstruction of a man who met a gruesome end almost 2,000 years ...

The Romans famously claimed to be descended from the Trojans, but does this legend have any basis in actuality?