Soar over the Empúries Ruins in Spain, a unique coastal site where the ancient Greek and Roman worlds meet on the Costa Brava ...

Constructed starting in 312 B.C.E. to carry troops southeast toward Capua and, eventually, the port city of Brindisi in the ...

A remarkable Roman mosaic found in Rutland turns out to tell a forgotten version of the Trojan War. Rather than Homer’s famous epic, it reflects a lost Greek tragedy by Aeschylus, featuring vivid ...

One common archaeological discovery is the Daunian kyathos, a one-handled, painted piece of pottery that may have functioned ...

Researchers have discovered new evidence that Neolithic people in the Judean Mountains achieved an engineering breakthrough 8000 years before the ancient Romans first used it. The precocious ancient ...

A mosaic dating back to the Roman period has been uncovered in northern Turkey after unauthorized digging exposed part of a buried structure in a vineyard garden. Once the discovery was reported, ...

An ancient Roman mosaic shows a woman fighting a wild beast in the arena — a rare depiction of a female combatant and the first known visual representation of a woman battling animals, according to a ...

A huge Roman mosaic that was uncovered in southern Turkey by archaeologists from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. The well preserved tiles once decorated a bathhouse during the Roman Empire's ...

St. Peter's Basilica is the biggest (and for Catholics, the most sacred) church in the world. Its artworks, like Michelangelo's Pieta, have been known to make peasants and popes weep. Everywhere you ...