Standing in the vast ruins of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, hundreds of gulls circle above. Their haunting cries echo ...

Public baths also often featured gymnasiums, libraries, restaurants and exercise yards. Archaeological evidence suggests even ...

Before the era of the Romans in southern Italy, the Messapii people crossed the Adriatic Sea and called the Italian peninsula home. They built a culture that lasted for nearly 800 years, but it was no ...

Volunteers were baffled recently when they unearthed not one but two ancient shoes at a historic British site.

The decorated plaster was found dumped in a large pit at a London development site that has previously yielded other ...

An early civilization of Mississippian peoples mysteriously came to an end well before the first European explorations of North America.

In the former Beverly Hills of Roman London, archaeologists were astonished to find thousands of fragments from Roman walls ...

Ancient Egypt had many impressive pharaohs, but which of them were especially fearsome warriors? Here are just some who ...

The ancient tomb, found in Abydos, Egypt, is thought to belong to a pharaoh who ruled 3,600 years ago, during a time of ...

Experts in London have spent three months piecing together the shattered remains of Roman artworks, revealing luxurious ...

Paper, invented in China around the 2nd century BCE, did not spread to the rest of the world until much later, as it remained ...