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

Cecrops, Athens’ first king, banned bloody sacrifices and reformed worship with laws, morality, and symbolic offerings.

Recent protests on racial justice have also questioned the portrayal of Jesus as a white man. An art historian explains how ...

The Hagia Sophia remains a highly popular tourist destination, attracting millions of travelers. Here is a detailed look at ...

Legend has it that ancient Romans partied so hard that they had a special room called a vomitorium, where they'd purge their ...

Hundreds of once-missing artifacts, hunted down over decades by a special Italian police unit, have been unveiled for the ...

Although the team obviously can’t tie zircon minerals to the Roman Empire’s collapse, their lengthy migration inside frozen ...

Roman ships equipped with bronze rams sank dozens of Carthaginian ships during a major naval battle in 241 BCE – now we know how the rams were made ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...

From the gastronomic specialties of Sifnos to the enigmatic ruins of the Dodecanese, each Greek island has its own distinct character. Here are the best Greek islands to visit. There’s a Greek ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a ...

Archaeologists have uncovered lifesize sculptures of a man and a woman in a newly excavated tomb in Pompeii’s Porta Sarno ...