Rome has uncovered the four large marble maps illustrating its evolution and expansion, from its foundation to the apex of its empire, hanging on the Via dei Fori, in front of the Colosseum, which had ...

After an amateur archaeologist found a Roman dagger in the hills of Switzerland in 2019, experts flocked to the site to carry ...

He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

The Romans associated pants with barbarism and eventually banned them, but the legwear eventually became commonplace nonetheless.

No one can realistically be expected to know everything about the Palestinian Arab/Israeli conflict, yet there are recurring canards that one should be prepared to address with some level of knowledge ...

Dark energy is still a mystery, but powerful new telescopes are set to uncover clues. With NASA and ESA leading the charge, ...

An exhibition titled Il Viaggio (En Route) commissioned by the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana features works by global ...

Featuring the world’s largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture these mysterious phenomena in more ...

An outsized history as the seat of the Catholic Church brings with it an incredible collection of art and architecture.

One of Spain’s warmest cities (even in January temperatures hover around 17C) has almost all of the crowd-pleasings aspects ...

In general, equipping a leader with their "signature" mementos – that's the ones you unlock by leveling those leaders up – is ...

Unlike Roman, Maya or Iñupiaq numerals, this isn’t a total reimagining of numbers. Instead, it’s an uncanny parallel universe. Any number without zeros retains its old appearance (1,776 is still 1,776 ...