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

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

This video explores Rome’s wars against the Dacians, fierce warriors of the Carpathians led by King Decebalus. It traces the ...

The marble sculpture, discovered at Chersonesos Taurica in Crimea in 2003, has been identified as a woman named Laodice ...

Abandoned around 1,500 years ago, Termessos in Turkey is an incredibly well-preserved archeological site that gets barely any visitors.

Polish researchers have identified a marble portrait found in 2003 as Laodice, a 2nd century aristocrat who helped her city ...

Renaissance Europe revered ancient Greece but dismissed Byzantium—a West–East divide that continues to shape humanism today.

MILAN (AP) — After a lifetime of spurning would-be business suitors, the late Italian designer Giorgio Armani instructed his heirs to sell an initial 15% minority stake in his vast fashion empire, ...

When the Roman Empire withdrew from Britain, the result was not chaos and economic collapse. The metals industry in what is now northern England continued and even expanded in the subsequent centuries ...

Ancient Roman historians often told the story of how a small, rather undistinguished city-state in central Italy became a huge empire exclusively by fighting defensive wars. At school everyone used to ...

The founder of a California-based porn empire that recruited women with false modeling offers was sentenced Monday to 27 years in federal prison. At the sentencing hearing, 40 women urged the court to ...