A remarkable Roman mosaic found in Rutland turns out to tell a forgotten version of the Trojan War. Rather than Homer’s famous epic, it reflects a lost Greek tragedy by Aeschylus, featuring vivid ...

The Eastern Roman Empire did not fall overnight. For centuries it faced relentless waves of migration — Lombards in Italy, ...

A MYSTERY over a carved Roman stone that has puzzled experts for decades may have finally been solved – by AI. The rounded hunk of limestone has a strange pattern carved into the top that dates ...

A Norwegian archaeologist believes that the Norwegians were on their way to the Roman Empire as mercenaries around the year ...

An empire already stretched by war suddenly faced a disaster it could not control. The Justinian Plague spread rapidly across the Eastern Roman Empire killing millions and weakening the economy.

The Greeks of Cappadocia, in central-eastern Anatolia, created their own flourishing culture in ancient times that thrived ...

Violence is not a Jewish invention, nor is it unique to the Middle East. War is a constant of human history, regardless of ...

The figure, which was probably one part of a pair, was likely meant to symbolize the strength and power of the Roman Empire. The panther probably represented Bacchus, the Roman name for the Greek god ...

This article dives into the striking parallels-and critical differences-between ancient empires and today’s superpowers. How ...

A casual swim off Sardinia turned into something remarkable. Near Arzachena, a diver spotted metal on the seabed. Curiosity ...

The Roman Empire transformed into Byzantium in the 7th century. Mural of the walls of Constantinople at the Istanbul Archaeology Museum. Photo credit: Argos’Dad Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 The ...

For centuries, historians have traced the arteries of the Roman Empire through fragmentary maps and uneven records. Now, a new digital atlas nearly doubles the known extent of Roman roads, charting ...