Four Decades After It Was Stolen, a Renaissance Treasure Returns to Rome

The Italian art police still don’t know who took the brilliantly illuminated manuscript page from a Franciscan friary, and ...
Greek Reporter

The Forgotten History of Greece’s Kingdom of Thessalonica

The Kingdom of Thessalonica was a short-lived state that emerged during the Fourth Crusade after the sack of Constantinople ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Seven Skeletons Found in a Croatian Well Were Likely Ancient Roman Soldiers Who Died During a Troubled Time for the Empire

The tall, adult men probably died during the battle of Mursa in 260 C.E., according to a new analysis of their remains ...

Ancient Roman mass grave shows its army’s ethnic diversity

In Croatia, archaeologists have discovered a mass grave dating back to the third century CE that indicates another key to ...
Ancient Origins

Extraordinary Roman Water Basin Unearthed at Gabii Near Rome

Archaeologists led by University of Missouri professor Marcello Mogetta have uncovered a massive stone-lined water basin in the ancient Roman city of Gabii, just eleven miles east of Rome. Built ...

The ghost stories of ancient Rome—from the bone-chilling to the absurd

Ghosts stories appear in several surviving texts from ancient Rome. What do they reveal about the people who told them?
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The most powerful empire of each century

Throughout history, powerful civilizations have risen and impacted the world in ways that are still visible and relevant ...

Mursa's mass grave reveals diverse origins of Roman soldiers

Archaeologists in Croatia have discovered a rare mass grave inside ancient water wells at Mursa (modern-day Osijek), ...