ROME (AP) — The man who just took charge of Rome’s top tourist attraction wants to set the record straight: the Colosseum won ...

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

According to legend, the Trojans migrated to Britain after the fall of Troy. A new book investigates the historicity of this legend.

Ghosts stories appear in several surviving texts from ancient Rome. What do they reveal about the people who told them?

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 ...

The discovery prompted an international search to figure out how the ancient headstone made it to New Orleans.

Modern firepower meets ancient tactics in this epic thought experiment: could a single Marine platoon overcome the might of a ...

Radiocarbon dating and a coin minted in 251 AD found within the well confirmed the remains dated to the second half of the third century AD, perfectly coinciding with the Crisis of the Third Century ...

Graffiti, gossip, and the daily gazette: it was easier and harder to get the news in ancient Rome than you might ...

Daniella Santoro, an anthropologist at Tulane University, and her husband Aaron Lorenz found the stone behind their home in ...

Populism exploits crises, bypasses norms, and mobilizes “true people” vs elites.Gracchi brothers’ reforms triggered violence, political revenge, and ...

Stories of ancient Roman artifacts and ruins being dug up in back gardens or disrupting construction projects are common. It seems that a British pensioner can hardly dig a new plot for potatoes, nor ...