In theory, putting down the rebels of the First Jewish Revolt should have been easy for the mighty Roman empire. But ...

Archaeologists in the Netherlands recently discovered a sizable conversation starter tucked away in a forgotten storage box.

A new chemical and microscopic analysis of Pompeii residues documents a sacrificial rite that had only been previously ...

The Kottayam hoard and others unearthed in India since have given economists plenty to chew on. The sites date back to the ...

The Obelisco del Pantheon, a sentinel of history standing proudly in Rome's Piazza della Rotonda. This obelisk, though modest ...

The ancient Greeks and Romans invaded Persia multiple times. The risks were high, the logistics complicated, and wars were a ...

Ancient Rome was filled with monumental buildings, but some of its greatest achievements are barely remembered today. Among them were the largest temples ever built in the Roman world. Massive ...

An immersive show at Melbourne Museum uses the latest technology alongside 2000-year-old antiquities to take visitors back in time.

Sarah Ferguson presents Australia's premier daily current affairs program, delivering agenda-setting public affairs ...

Many people living in ancient Greece and Rome appear to have recognised that happiness can come from removing oneself from ...

Few figures in history have been as polarizing as Nero, the infamous Roman emperor who had a love affair with everything ...

A study based on tree rings claimed that droughts played a role in events that led to the Roman withdrawal from Britain, but ...