Legend has it that when the Statue of Zeus was completed, the king of the gods announced his approval via a lightning bolt.

On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered ancient Egyptian ...

The seat is across from the entrance to the Villa of the Mysteries, a large property full of beautiful frescoes located just ...

Myth and Marble,” an exhibition of the Torlonia Collection at the Kimbell Art Museum, has been thousands of years in the ...

From a mosaic of flip-flops in Sicily to Cicero's possible sauna, new discoveries prove that bathing has always been about ...

A cache of coins bearing the faces of the Roman emperors Constantius II and Constans I was discovered in underground tunnels ...

Scholars were wrong about prehistoric Sicily. Davide Tanasi, a professor at the University of South Florida, has new evidence ...

A Roman centurion in sneakers and sunglasses? That is the kind of playful distortion AI image generators sometimes produce ...

From Zeus at Olympia to the Lighthouse of Alexandria, coins and medals preserve rare glimpses of the Seven Wonders of the ...

Resting on the seafloor was a remarkably preserved bronze helmet, complete with cheek guards still intact. The helmet is in ...

Every year, during the last few weekends of summer, something very special takes place in the Saddleworth hills – it’s dig season at Castleshaw Roman Fort. The ancient site, which was home to around ...

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