BC, while Rome was still a minor city-state in the Italian peninsula, the ancient city of Cyrene flourished as one of the ...

Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

This is the twelvth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in worlds beyond the pathological ...

However, we can say the island really got on the map when it was settled ... the rise of a dynamic new power: Rome. This led to a series of wars between the two civilisations. After the second such ...

Archaeologists have already found more than 200 tombs—and they think that might be just the tip of the iceberg.

Archaeologists from the Museum of London have discovered a well-preserved part of the ancient city of London’s first Roman ...

But it was the Romans who developed a working model of checks and balances. The constitution of the Roman republic was ...

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Archaeologists in the ancient Greek city of Perge, Turkey, have discovered five Roman statues, including Aphrodite and Eros.

The archaeologists now think that the necropolis arose somewhere within a drier portion of the ancient city, and was constructed ... B.C. and the foundation of Rome in 753 B.C. In the ...

Archaeologists excavating a sewer system from the ancient city of Heraclea Sintica in Bulgaria have just uncovered a ...

Big flavours, colossal culture, monumental architecture and extravagant experiences. Rome is a blockbuster European city break. Nothing makes you feel like a blip in time quite like a stay in the ...