The Course of Empire' is a cycle of paintings by 19th-century artist Thomas Cole that depict the rise and fall of an ...

These seven towns prove that West Virginia’s charm goes far beyond its well-known attractions. Each offers its own unique blend of history, culture, outdoor adventure, and small-town hospitality that ...

Archaeologists in Stuttgart, Germany, uncovered over 100 horse skeletons believed to have been part of a Roman cavalry unit.

Cherubini’s remains were identified in December by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. He was 22 years old at the time of ...

Bite marks found on a skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery in York have revealed the first archaeological evidence of ...

Bite marks found on a skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery in York have revealed the first archaeological evidence of gladiatorial combat between a human and a lion.

York began as the Roman city of Eboracum, which was founded as a fortress in the year 71 AD, and soldiers remained there until the end of the Roman period in the early fifth century, according to ...

A gruesome ancient mass grave of over 150 soldiers was discovered near Vienna in Austria during soccer field renovations. The ...

The discovery of a Roman horses’ graveyard shows a soldier’s grief at the loss of his equine partner, 1,800 years later. An excavation carried out by the state office for monument preservation ...

Legends of young heroes fighting lions to the death appear in Roman records and artwork ... at the cemetery were gladiators, rather than soldiers or slaves, as initially thought,” said study ...

Archaeologists working at Driffield Terrace, a well-preserved Roman cemetery in York, have uncovered the first direct ...