Two ancient mosaic floors with Greek letters found in Antipatrea, modern-day Berat, Albania, offer rare evidence of early ...

Of the places he had shown me, that was the one that stuck, and some months later, when we began planning a family trip, I ...

For the first time ever, researchers have mapped the entirety of the vast Roman road network highlighting its immense ...

The digital Itiner-e atlas is revolutionizing how we see the ancient world. In it, researchers have mapped the entirety of ...

Ancient Greek cartographers, from Anaximander to Ptolemy, turned myth and measurement into world maps, shaping latitude and ...

The theft is a serious loss for the country's cultural heritage, which had already sustained extensive damage during a long ...

History remembers kings and conquerors, but sometimes, it also remembers the destroyers. Among them stands Herostratus, a ...

JUST one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still stands – with the rest lost to plunder, fire, earthquakes and the ...

“These Roman roads—both paved and unpaved—gave structure to massive cultural shifts that affected Western history for the ...

Ancient Roman gladiators are often imagined as chiselled, bronzed heroes of the arena, akin to today’s top athletes. But the ...

Hygieia was a prominent figure in both ancient Greek and Roman mythology—she was the daughter of Asclepius, the god of medicine. Hygieia (from whose name we get the word ‘hygiene’) was known as the ...

Here's a new twist on an old favorite...though our particular inspiration is a bit older. Okay, make that a lot older. We're talking ancient Rome. Secret Service finds 17 'skimming' devices in tour of ...