Beginning in the eighth century BCE, ancient Rome grew from a small town into an empire that at its peak covered most of ...

Two thousand years on, scholars still don’t agree on the day the destruction of Pompeii began. Two new studies only fan the ...

The Imago Mundi, the oldest known world map, offers a rare glimpse into the way ancient Babylonians viewed their world.

A new book explores how the Roman Empire influenced early Scandinavian societies, laying the foundation for Viking ...

The Via Egnatia was an ancient Roman road that ran from the Adriatic Sea to Byzantium, connecting northern ancient Greek ...