Caligula, the notoriously erratic Roman emperor known for his bloodthirsty cruelty, probably also possessed a nerd's ...

Archaeologists have discovered multiple artifacts depicting ancient Greek deities in the ancient city of Finziade in Sicily.

After the French parliament voted on Monday to return to Ivory Coast a "talking drum" that colonial troops took from the ...

The same force that paved the way for the Greek Golden Age sowed the seeds of its political collapse: individualism.

We can probably safely assume Rome, in many areas, was likely pretty dirty and rank-smelling. That said, there's evidence of ...

But the ancient world has been a visual shorthand for the idea of empire since Europe's neoclassical movement in the 18th ...

For I am not ashamed of the Gospel: it is the power of God unto salvation for all those who believe, the Jew first and also ...

Was the Byzantine Empire a continuation of Ancient Greece, or something entirely new? In this video, we trace the Hellenization of the Eastern Roman Empire—from language shifts and classical ...

This map shows the spatial distribution of city-states in Greece, indexed for whether silver coins were ever minted. Also shown is the spatial distribution of located battles. Credit: J. Adamson To ...

The longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judean Desert, which sheds new light on a legal drama that unfolded in Israel nearly 2,000 years ago, has now been published for the first time. Over the ...