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 ...

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 ...

When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...

The ancient Roman ruins under Sisak city hall as seen ... Some experts think these smaller theaters were developed “because early Greek musical instruments could not be heard in the vast open ...

RESEARCHERS have deciphered the title and author of a charred scroll destroyed by the Mount Vesuvius eruption 2,000 years ago ...