At a site not far from an ancient forum and amphitheater once used to host Roman gladiators, archaeologists discovered an ...

The best hotels in Rome complement the Eternal City’s rich tapestry of art, culture and cuisine. With a hospitality scene that has just hit its stride, this city seemingly debuts new hotels each ...

New discoveries related to works of art in ancient Greece and Rome continue to be unearthed. A Danish study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology in March found that statues in antiquity ...

The period may have as much contemporary resonance as Ancient Rome. By Jonn Elledge Last week ... so I should probably note that many historians hate the label “the Dark Ages”. It’s Eurocentric (much ...

Alesia is arguably the most revered location, having held the most brutal and significant battle, where Caesar’s conquest of the town was intensified by the powerful walls circulating the location to ...

These fascinating ancient ... up Google Maps on your phone and being greeted with one of these… The oldest known map of the world is the Babylonian Map of the World, dating back to the sixth century B ...

View of the three-dimensional map on the Ségognole 3 cave floor. Credit: Dr. Médard Thiry Researchers have discovered what may be the world’s oldest 3D map, located within a quartzitic sandstone ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...

The decade-long research, published recently in Roman Urbanism in Italy, rewrites the timeline of the ancient empire’s collapse. So far, at sites across the city Interamna Lirenas ...

Over a million years ago, ancient human ancestors sat down to shave flakes off bones, producing a tool with a carefully created sharp edge. According to Jackson Njau, an archaeologist at ...

Public ceremonies, lavish processions, and temporary wooden arches were commonplace after victory in Ancient Rome. But during the height of its power, the emperor decided to change that and leave ...

Study co-lead Professor Tim Johnson, from Curtin University, said the discovery significantly challenged previous assumptions about our planet's ancient history. "Before our discovery, the oldest ...