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 ...

Author and National Constitution Center President & CEO Jeffrey Rosen talked about his book, "The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting Battle Over Power in America," and ...

Even though Ah Louis wasn’t Catholic, Father John Arnett allowed him to be laid to rest in the Old Mission Cemetery’s ...

Teachers at nine high schools in northeastern Australia discovered days before an ancient history exam that they had ...

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

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

During a routine water retention project in the Bavarian countryside at Wolkertshofen in Germany, archaeologists spent the ...

He died nearly 2,000 years ago in what is now Italy. He was a sailor in the Roman navy, serving on an oar-powered warship called a trireme. He didn't lead a legion, seize a throne or start a new ...

In Britain, researchers believe that they are finally able to date the mysterious gigantic chalk figure at Cerne Abbas. The Cerne Abbas Giant has intrigued people for at least a century as its origins ...

NEW ORLEANS — A New Orleans family cleaning up their overgrown backyard made an extremely unusual find: Under the weeds was a mysterious marble tablet with Latin characters that included the phrase ...