An excavation at the Tell Abu Sefeh site in Egypt revealed sophisticated military fortifications from the Ptolemaic and Roman ...

The Indian subcontinent’s connections to the West, especially via the Roman empire, were far richer than once thought.

The Europe of Abercrombie’s story is in upheaval. The mad sorceress Eudoxia, Empress of Troy, has died, leaving the Serpent ...

Roman society was, in many ways, surprisingly sophisticated. It built remarkable things like aqueducts that snaked over long ...

Tourism is surging in many places around the world—swarmed national parks, throngs of visitors amassing in churches and ...

At the beginning of the 2nd century BCE, two major powers vied for the Mediterranean. In the west, the Romans had recently ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have unearthed ruins from a hidden ancient palace which housed popes for centuries before the Vatican was ...

Instead, the EU is turning out to be more like a modern version of the Holy Roman Empire (HRE), its 27 members always meeting ...

In the summer of 2024, a team of archaeologists was called in at a housing project in Stuttgart’s Bad Cannstatt district and ...

The Roman empire and its successor in the East decayed gradually ... that ownership by one country of territory seized by ...

After the death of Alexander the Great, a eunuch named Philetaerus established the ancient Greek city of Pergamon a major ...

The start of imperial Rome is officially dated to 27 BCE, when Gaius Octavius Caesar was awarded the name Augustus, signaling his position as emperor. Following his precedent, Rome would be ruled by ...