Cleopatra VII is one of those historical figures whose name sparks instant recognition, but how much do we really know about ...

Last Saturday, I squeezed into St Peter’s in Rome for Mass. Nothing especially surprising there, you might think. But two ...

The world is thirsting for peace and for an end to abuses of power and indifference to the rule of law, Pope Leo XIV said at ...

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

Carthage was the capital city of the ancient Carthaginian civilization, and was one of the most important trading hubs of the ...

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 Roman-Etruscan Wars represent a significant chapter in the ancient history of ancient Italy, marking the clashes between the burgeoning power of Rome and the advanced civilization of the Etruscans ...

To most people, the phrase birth control doesn’t evoke mental images of herbs, sneezing, or crocodile excrement. But women and men in ancient cultures used a variety of unusual methods to prevent ...

AN ANCIENT Roman “experiment” has been unearthed after more than 2,250 years. The stunning discovery was found just 11 miles east of Rome – and archaeologists say another mystery is lurking nearby.

An exceptionally well-preserved ship figurehead, in the form of a wooden statue, was “caught” by a shrimp boat crew off the coast of Texel Island in the Dutch Wadden Islands. This super-rare ship ...

Discover the astonishing story of how Ancient Rome transported and erected massive Egyptian obelisks—monuments weighing hundreds of tons—using ingenuity, manpower, and engineering that still amazes ...

Researchers in Italy discovered 400,000-year-old evidence that ancient humans butchered elephants for food and tools. At the Casal Lumbroso site near Rome, they found hundreds of bones and stone ...