A Roman shipwreck with amphorae of ancient garum sauce has been identified in the Ionian Sea, offering insight into ...
It would be the first hard evidence that elephants were used in battle by General Hannibal.
Volunteers unearthed the striking 2,000-year-old piece during work at a fort in Northumberland.
Elephants are not exactly commonplace in the European landscape, so when archaeologists uncovered an elephant foot bone among the rubble of an Iron Age dig in Spain, they knew it could be something ...
• In Slovenia, St. Valentine is considered the patron saint of beekeepers, good health and religious pilgrims. In that part ...
The Western Roman Empire once possessed powerful fleets capable of decisive naval warfare. Yet within a century, that naval strength had effectively disappeared. This video explains how imperial ...
Drawing heavily from antiquity, the Byzantine contribution to education and higher learning is immense, despite often being ...
The head is thought to be the same figure as another uncovered at the Magna site which has been on display in Newcastle's ...
In 122 AD, Roman emperor Hadrian ordered the building of a wall to mark his empire’s British frontier. How long did it take ...
Jewish pogroms in nineteenth-century Odessa, examining the role of the Greek community, economic rivalry, imperial policy and ...
Jewish pogroms in nineteenth-century Odessa, examining the role of the Greek community, economic rivalry, imperial policy and ...
Scholars Finally Decode 'Unreadable' Ancient Roman Tablets That No One Was Supposed to See ...