The destruction of the Library of Alexandria as the city is engulfed in flames is depicted in Hermann Goll’s 1876 Incendie ...

A Roman-era mass grave in Vienna held at least 128 young men, many with severe pelvic injuries likely caused during combat.

New finds at ancient Thouria, including an Artemis statuette and a 117 meter wall, reveal more of this ancient Greek city in ...

Square holes in Pompeii's northern walls may be the only battlefield evidence of the polybolos, a rapid-fire dart launcher ...

Traces of pine tar and beeswax preserved on the vessel reveal the painstaking techniques shipbuilders millennia ago used to ...

An emblematic Roman mosaic is among the artefacts to be restored in Trikala, under an ambitious plan by the Greek Ministry of ...

A Roman law expert at the University of Cincinnati edited and translated a Latin legal text he pieced together from fragments ...

The Tiber is at a historic low, and near Castel Sant’Angelo, the pillars of what was once a Neronian bridge, dating from the ...

The ancient Romans valued travel, and visited Greek islands, the Pyramids of Giza, the Olympic Games, and various bathhouses, among other destinations.

Discovery of 2,100-year-old vessel hailed as ‘one of the most important underwater archaeological discoveries of recent years’ A 2,100-year-old Roman shipwreck carrying about 500 amphorae has been ...

Italian spear fisherman and diver Giacomo De Mola couldn’t believe his eyes when what he thought was an underwater rock turned out to be the wreck of a 2,000-year-old Roman transport vessel off the ...

Divers have uncovered a Roman-era shipwreck that had remained untouched on the seabed off Sicily for more than 2,000 years, police on the Mediterranean island said. Italian Culture Minister Alessandro ...