Birds were prominent figures in ancient Rome. Certain owls and eagles were considered powerful divinatory omens, while ...

AN electrifying debut and Reverend Richard Coles has another cosy crime story to regale us with... Fiction. A Death on Location by Richard Coles is published in hardback by Weiden ...

This week's bookcase includes reviews of The Bombshell by Darrow Farr and A Death on Location by Richard Coles. AN ...

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The Bombshell by Darrow Farr and A Death on Location by Richard Coles.

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was trashed by the critics as the campiest of sword and sandal sagas to emerge in years. This despite its reported $19-million price tag, the nobility of its cast that includes Laurence Olivier ...

The ancient Romans were unaware of the massive danger posed by a volcano in their midst, so when Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, thousands of people scrambled to escape several small seaside towns.

Archaeologists in Pompeii have uncovered rare ... carrying a slaughtered goat on their shoulders or holding a sword and the entrails of an animal in their hands. At the center, is a fresco of an ...

ROME — Archaeologists in Pompeii have uncovered rare ... carrying a slaughtered goat on their shoulders or holding a sword and the entrails of an animal in their hands. At the center, is a fresco of ...

A nearly life-size fresco just discovered in Pompeii depicts the initiation rituals ... slaughtered goat kids on their bare shoulders and swords and goat intestines in their hands.

Another new discovery in the ruins of Pompeii has shed light on the wilder side of the ancient Romans. An extremely rare frieze known as a “megalography,” or painting with life-sized figures ...