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

Ancient Greek kings used war elephants from Alexander to the Seleucids, shaping battles and empire-building across the Hellenistic world.

Archaeologists recently discovered a massive 2,000-year-old stone basin in ancient Gabii, Italy, revealing early Roman public architecture from Rome's powerful rival city.

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

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.

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 ...

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

A New Orleans couple cleaning up their overgrown backyard stumbled across a stunning find among the weeds - an ancient Roman marble tablet that had been unaccounted for since World War II. Daniella ...

What started as a routine yard cleanup turned into an extraordinary archaeological discovery when a New Orleans couple unearthed a marble slab bearing an ancient Roman inscription. Experts have ...

Graffiti, gossip, and the daily gazette: it was easier and harder to get the news in ancient Rome than you might think… 'Tragedy averted' at Atlanta Airport as police arrest man with AR-15 allegedly ...