DNA reveals that the people of Carthage, a powerful independent colony founded by the Phoenicians, had little genetic ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have unearthed ruins from a hidden ancient palace which housed popes for centuries before the Vatican was ...

The Samnites were Italic tribes that migrated from Central Europe to the mountainous south-central region of Italy in the 9th ...

For the first time, researchers have conducted a quantified analysis of the Roman siege at Masada. The team, from Tel Aviv ...

Are you not entertained? New analysis from the bones of an ancient gladiator discovered in York suggests that British ...

Virgil was one of Rome's most prolific poets, but how much was he influenced by ancient Greece and Greek writers like Homer?

For over two thousand years, successive societies forged the civilization of ancient Greece. From the early societies of the ...

Ancient texts and modern movies alike depict the Roman Empire as a society that pitted men against animals for bloodsport.

After an earthquake damaged a city hall in Croatia, renovation work on the building’s basement unearthed the ruins of an ancient Roman theater. Photo from Croatia’s Ministry of Culture and Media An ...

After an earthquake damaged a city hall in Croatia, renovation work on the building’s basement unearthed the ruins of an ancient Roman theater. Photo from Croatia’s Ministry of Culture and ...

The first physical evidence of Roman gladiators fighting animals has been found in skeletal remains from England ...

The new "Asterix" show on Netflix revives the comics' use of a "Roman" salute that actually has nothing to do with antiquity.