One theory suggests the infamous Roman emperor survived an assassination attempt in the tunnel now open to the public.

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

Historian John Stow claimed that Henry VIII had around 70,000 people executed (although this is believed to be an exaggerated ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ancient Rome didn’t abandon its gods overnight. The rise of Christianity was a slow transformation of the cult-based religious order that had structured Roman life for centuries ...

By the mid-5th century, the Western Roman Empire was collapsing. Africa was lost. Gaul was slipping away. Hispania was contested. Many believed Rome’s fate was sealed. Majorian did not. Determined to ...

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

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