Being in Paris this early spring brought me a wondrous, gilded experience at the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac. The ...

From protein-filled meals to the benefits of lentils and intermittent fasting, the Classical world had strong opinions about ...

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

Researchers analyzed 788 obsidian artifacts from Tenochtitlan, revealing that the Mexica (Aztec) Empire sourced this important material from at least eight different locations, including regions ...

One of the world’s oldest cookbooks, De Re Coquinaria, contains recipes for familiar staples, along with more exotic fare.

Here’s a tip: Do not livestream your illegal excavation of Roman ruins near a Turkish castle. Turkey’s authorities and actual ...

In an online account on Reddit, the mum shared she had named her baby girl Aurelia, drawing from the ancient Roman emperor and philosopher, Marcus Aurelius. She expressed: "My family is very ...

Quite the opposite, he grappled with the master, taking epic Greek poetry’s sound and structure and forging something distinctly Roman. It’s this deep, foundational link between Virgil and ancient ...

Archaeologists excavating an ancient Roman settlement in the United Kingdom found an oven used for making construction materials, photos show. Photo from Cotswold Archaeology Sifting through the ...

Mussolini frequently used “SPQR” to invoke comparisons between the glories of ancient Rome and his own regime, as part of a vision for what he called the “New Roman Empire.” More recently, SPQR’s ...