While the mayors of the cities did sign a peace treaty in 1985, it was a symbolic gesture. In reality, the wars between the two ancient civilizations ended more than 2,000 years prior when Rome ...

Archaeological evidence suggests the existence of "Gladiatrix," female gladiators who competed in ancient Rome.

In 542 AD, during the Gothic War—a conflict sparked by Emperor Justinian’s ambition to restore Roman rule in the West—Eastern ...

A new study analyzing declassified Cold War satellite imagery reveals 396 previously undocumented Roman forts and reports that these forts were constructed from east to west, spanning from what is now ...

Examine the multiculturalism that defined Imperial Rome. Examine the multiculturalism that defined Imperial Rome, a city of nearly a million people drawn from across the Roman Empire. Much like the ...

Israeli airstrikes targeting Lebanon's eastern city of Baalbek threaten to put at risk some of the largest and best-preserved temples constructed by ancient Rome, the United Nations' cultural agency ...

An ancient map showing Thrace, Macedonia, and other past kingdoms. duncan1890/DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images In antiquity, cavalry horses were trained to endure the piercing pipe music that led ...

A bronze battering ram recovered from the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. Photo: Soprintendenza del Mare An Italian cultural heritage outfit has announced the recovery of a Roman battering ram from ...