What did ancient Greeks wear in the winter? A natural question as all statues of Greeks in antiquity depict them dressed in ...

Unlike the Egyptian pyramids, ziggurats were not places of royal burials, but temples dedicated to the patron deity of a city ...

Archaeologists have unearthed tombs and a shrine dedicated to Hercules from the time of the Roman Republic.

A Roman-era skeleton discovered in southern England has finally given up her secrets after more than a decade of debate.

Archaeologists in Germany have discovered four Roman marching camps and around 1,500 artifacts, including coins and shoe ...

"A plague is upon us'' may have been a common phrase in ancient Jordan, where countless people perished from a mysterious ...

Valentino Garavani was a founding member of the mid-20th-century generation of designers who embraced old-school glamor. His ...

New research suggests the mysterious Roman-era “Beachy Head Woman” was likely from Britain, not the Mediterranean or ...

Crucially, the basilica at Fanum Fortunae (ancient Fano) is the only building Vitruvius explicitly references in his surviving treatise De architectura, making the identification unusually significant ...

The structure is the first known evidence of a building attributed to Vitruvius, the author of an architectural treatise that ...

Empress Zoe Porphyrogenita is among the most intriguing female figures in Byzantine history for a number of good reasons.

Mysterious micro-burrows in desert marble and limestone were probably made by microbes that lived millions of years ago. Exactly what kind of microbes bored into the rock remains unknown, as does ...