Did the ancient Greek soldier Pheidippides actually run the distance from Athens to Sparta and back — not just from Marathon to Athens? Credit: MatthiasKabel/Wikimedia Commons/ Creative Commons ...

A precious gem found at Carlisle's Roman Bathhouse has illuminated the intricacies of religion on Rome's northernmost frontier.

The famous conqueror’s burial location remains a mystery, but new research claims that material found in one of the iconic ...

The move comes after what authorities called a record summer that saw more than 4 million people visiting the world-famous ...

Visit Pompeii, a preserved wonder of ancient Rome, now capping visitors to 20,000 daily. Explore its history responsibly from ...

(CNS photo/Vatican Media) (OSV News) — Situated on the outskirts of ancient Rome along the still-visible Aurelian Walls is ...

The results, published Nov. 7 in Current Biology, reveal that some of the stories told for decades about the individuals’ ...

Pompeii is located about 150 miles (241 kilometers) from Rome. The study builds upon research from 2022 when scientists sequenced the genome of a Pompeii victim for the first time and confirmed the ...

A pit of human bones, potential evidence of a catastrophic epidemic that struck Constantinople in 541 A.D. Sulfur deposits ...

Archaeologists began excavating a site in Villeneuve-sur-Lot in 2017 ahead of home construction. They expected to find something because of the area’s proximity to Excisum, a prosperous ancient Roman ...

Cato the Elder was a senator during the Roman Republic. After a trip to Carthage, he became convinced that Carthage was a ...