I blame the young adult genre for making me so obsessed with Greek and Roman mythology as a teenager that I sometimes still ...

From drunken student toga parties to the 12 million annual visitors to the Colosseum – the might of ancient Rome has echoed down the centuries in all sorts of unexpected ways. Roman buildings, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A general view shows the Roman Forum and the Colosseum Archaeological Park area from Palatin Hill in Rome in October 2023. - ...

What was it like to be a gladiator in ancient Rome, within and beyond the arena? A new book dissects the gore, glory and ...

Did Zeus use his immense power solely for good? Was Jason really a great hero who sailed across the sea to find the Golden Fleece or a selfish lout who succeeded only with the help of a clever and ...

A marble inscription discovered at Hadrian’s Villa has preserved the rare physical reminders of the Roman rite of lightning which was performed at the place the lightning was thought to have struck.

Before Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, Hong Eun-young’s Greek and Roman myths comics helped make Greek mythology familiar to Korean children through schools, libraries and homes. Released in November ...

An analysis of the Roman Empire’s road network disputes the myth “all roads lead to Rome,” citing the importance of other ...