Archaeologists in Switzerland just unearthed a Roman amphitheater dating to the fourth century A.D. — making it the youngest ...

The lentil-shaped objects were unearthed in Hadrianopolis, an ancient city in modern-day Turkey, that once hosted a Roman ...

Archaeologists in Luxembourg have unearthed a stash of Roman gold coins dating back some 1,600 years. The coins are marked ...

The ancient Romans lived in smelly cities. We know this from archaeological evidence found at the best-preserved sites of Roman Italy — Pompeii, Herculaneum, Ostia and Rome — as well as from ...

Why are people in some regions happier and healthier than in other regions? For the first time, an international team of ...

The first, the conquest by Alexander, which brought Greek culture to the middle eastern territories. And then, subsequent to that, the Roman imperial expansion, which would take that over politically.

“We’re no longer a boutique industry. We’re not on the fringe. We’re driving pop culture now, and with the fact that Roman ...

Herod carefully cultivated his image as a sophisticate steeped in Greco-Roman culture. If the writers of the New Testament saw him as a tyrant, Herod saw himself as the paragon of refinement.

We find many mosaics on the floors of ancient Roman buildings. They often show scenes from well-known stories, or even just pictures from everyday life at the time…and if I’m not mistaken ...