A mysterious inscription sheds light on the issue of whether the Great Mosque of Homs in Syria was constructed over the ...

The text—the tale of a warrior ruler—may help settle a nearly century-old puzzle about the location of the Temple of ...

A recently discovered Greek inscription at the base of a column inside the Great Mosque of Homs in Syria has rekindled a longstanding scholarly debate about the exact location of the Temple of the sun ...

The Romans associated pants with barbarism and eventually banned them, but the legwear eventually became commonplace ...

There's a moment in ancient history that reads like a fever dream. The Roman Emperor Caligula, sometime around 40 CE, marched ...

Emperor penguins shed all their feathers once a year, a precarious ritual that may have become deadly as climate change ...

Metal detectorists have discovered two "exceptionally rare" lead blocks on farmland in west Wales. The ingots date back ...

This ancient queen of Palmyra conquered Egypt, captured Roman provinces, and nearly transformed her realm into an empire ...

In Ancient Greece and Rome, pets brought companionship, loyalty, status, and love—from Odysseus’ Argos to Augustus’ raven.

In 476 AD, Romulus Augustus was deposed. Modern textbooks call it the fall of Rome. But the Romans themselves did not. Life in Italy continued. Coins were minted in the name of the emperor in ...

Two hefty Roman lead ingots (nicknamed “lead pigs”) have been declared treasure after being unearthed on grazing land in Ceredigion, west Wales. Dated to around AD 87 from their lettering, the pair ...