The search for a lost Roman temple is on. As archaeologists continued to excavate a Roman fort from the first century A.D. in ...

Nero, who ruled from A.D. 54 to 68, is often remembered as one of history’s most notorious emperors, his reputation steeped ...

Eos, the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, with her abode the sky, was perhaps the most resplendent of all the beings in the Greek pantheon.

It took over two years, but divers in Sicily finally scoured a shipwreck off the island's south shore, and found lots of ...

A volcanic eruption destroyed the Roman city of Pompeii in 79 AD, but an avalanche of tourists has caused officials to ...

Alexander the Great is one of the legendary conquerors of ancient history who sparked the imagination of generations of ...

Designers say with the right approach, classical columns can look less stuffy and outdated.

The gold object features an inscription dedicated to an ancient deity who was particularly revered by soldiers.

Christianity is often viewed as an alternative to Roman religion. But in many ways, Christianity was an expression of Roman ...

Ancient DNA recovered from Pompeii shows that people found holding one another beneath the volcanic ash weren’t related in ...

Although it has a Turkish name (like many of the foods cooked by the Romans of Polis and all of Asia Minor, since Turkish was ...

Some currencies that Americans can't identify include the rupee, lira, dram, kwanza, lek, aspar, tugrik, and krone.