Archaeologists in the ancient Greek city of Perge, Turkey, have discovered five Roman statues, including Aphrodite and Eros.

Archaeologists excavating a sewer system from the ancient city of Heraclea Sintica in Bulgaria have just uncovered a ...

Father Michael said Saint Valentine was one, very real person– or at least the man that the church honored with a feast was no legend. He said he did not know of the secret marriage ceremonies, but ...

It is the first Roman Imperial helmet ever found in the country, and just the second ever found in all of Scandinavia.

The remains of an ancient basilica that would have formed ... reflecting the rapid growth and importance of Londinium in the Roman Empire.

Fast-forward two millennia and the paintwork has long since faded, giving rise to a range of colourless copycats that would ...

British nationality seems to be, rather than immaterial, something completely material, summed up in the existence of a bit of paper bearing His Majesty’s stamp.  In 1707, following the English ...

In fact, the cooling effect of the air pollution they produced would have proved to be irrelevant anyway as the climate was entering a warming phase during the empire’s height ... the temperature ...

You might think that finding crowd-free destinations in Italy is impossible, but nothing is impossible in this world. Get ready to fall in love with Italy.

Other mainstays of their commerce were fish sauce (known in the ancient world as garum), wool ... traditions and even coinage until well into the days of the Roman Empire, when it became an official ...

While the Nazi salute is the most well-known form of the Roman salute, it is important to distinguish between the two. The Roman salute was originally a sign of respect and loyalty in ancient Rome ...

A royal tomb belonging to an ancient Egyptian King has been unearthed, in what has been called a “remarkable” discovery by ...