When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

Take the fast train from Lecce to Rome and you’ll see buildings recede, replaced by sea, shore and countryside.

Tax day has changed history, with examples including the Rosetta Stone, Julius Caesar’s progressive policies, Caesar Augustus ...

If you still have these shoes in your closet, it might be time to let go of the 90s (or early 2000s) and invest in some new ...

A 4 c. BC Greek fresco bearing striking similarities to the traditional portrayals of the Virgin Mary has been discovered in ...

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Archaeologists working at a city in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have discovered two life-sized funerary statues ...

Minoan Greece had fast food 3,600 years ago, with food stalls serving dishes like souvlaki, a beloved Greek staple still popular today.

The 6,500-year-old weapons, found in a cave near Marfa, could be among the oldest near-complete set of wood and stone hunting ...

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

Although architectural recycling was common practice throughout antiquity, many of the spolia churches date from centuries after the heyday of Ancient Rome, when the city’s population was ...