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

Almost every Roman city had large public latrines, where many people - often 20 or more - could relieve themselves in remarkably opulent settings. This video explores how the use, decoration, and ...

The British sculptor Antony Gormley and the Japanese architect Tadao Ando designed an installation evoking the ancient Roman dome. Building it was complicated.

More than 160 cremation graves were discovered at the ancient site of Olbia, which began as a fortified Greek settlement around 350 B.C. in what is now the south of France. The ge ...

They conquered half the world — but their greatest victories were made of stone, steel, and science. In this journey through Ancient Roman engineering, explore how they built 400,000 kilometers of ...

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

From the Greeks and the Romans to the Ottoman empire, the history of Sardis, Turkey, is one of persistent turnover. But its ...

The very first Halloween celebrations trace back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, which later morphed into All ...

Pamukkale in Turkey looks like a snowy paradise but its hot springs have been a geothermal tourist attraction for millennia, long before today’s Instagrammers found them.

From prehistoric burials to overcrowded Victorian churchyards, this is what our treatment of the dead throughout history says about the living ...

At his recent General Audience, Pope Leo XIV offered a message that deserves far more attention than a single day in the news ...

One of the earliest figures known to have faked an illness for personal advantage was Odysseus. Odysseus was the hero of ...