Core elements of Roman law can be traced back to the ancient Greek world. Roman law has been fundamental to the foundations ...

Ball games were probably the most popular sporting activity in the ancient world and could be played in many different ways.

Archaeologists in Kaiseraugst, Switzerland, have uncovered an ancient Roman road and rare artifacts, including a bronze ...

For the first time, bite marks made by a large cat, possibly an African lion, have been identified on the bones of what is ...

The scroll, found in the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum, contains part of a multi-volume work titled "On Vices" and was ...

A Libyan-international archaeological mission announced on Monday the discovery of the remains of an ancient sea lighthouse on the coast of eastern Libya's Tobruk city, according to the official ...

Researchers working to decipher the contents of a burned, still-rolled scroll have uncovered both the author and the title of ...

Pierre Zalloua, a Lebanese-born population geneticist with a flair for (gently) stirring the pot, takes the reader on an ...

For over two thousand years, successive societies forged the civilization of ancient Greece. From the early societies of the ...

Team scoops US$60,000 prize for identifying a Greek work on vices from scans of a 2,000-year-old papyrus charred by volcanic ...

The scroll named PHerc. 172, one of three from Herculaneum housed at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford, was scanned last July.

Devout regulars attending Athens's main Roman Catholic church that honours a first-century saint have discovered a ...