The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and ...

Several ancient Roman emperors loved Greece. As the Roman Empire consolidated, Greek culture, literature, politics, and art ...

Founded by Alexander the Great's father King Philip II in 356 B.C.E., the historic city of Philippi has become one of the ...

In the mythology of ancient Greece and Rome, the harpies were a group of animal-human hybrid monsters like the sirens and the ...

Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the ...

Among the items are sandals, pottery and Britain's largest collection of Roman writing tablets, bearing IOU notes and gossip ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii, Italy, analyzed a variety of paint pigments, offering glimpse the art of ancient Romans, a study said. Photo from the Archaeological Park of Pompeii The ruins of Pompeii ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white ... around 410 B.C. Contemporary writings on art, including a book by Roman author Pliny the Elder, mention the fact that sculptures ...

From Tower Hill in the East to Blackfriars Station in the West, the wall stretched for two miles around the ancient City of ... as it stood upon the main Roman road linking London to Colchester.

Romans kept dogs as pets ... Lapdogs are associated with a whole host of religious figures in Ancient Rome, she notes. Art from this period often depicts lapdogs with mother goddess figures ...

Croatia In 301 A.D., the Emperor Diocletian made a bold but ultimately unsuccessful bid to address the inflation that was rampaging across the eastern half of the divided Roman Empire. Prices of ...

In the ancient world, there were far more radical changes to the way people observed and formalised time. The changes to the calendars used by the Romans ... professor of history at the University ...