The text—the tale of a warrior ruler—may help settle a nearly century-old puzzle about the location of the Temple of ...

A mysterious inscription sheds light on the issue of whether the Great Mosque of Homs in Syria was constructed over the ...

Several ancient Roman emperors loved Greece. As the Roman Empire consolidated, Greek culture, literature, politics, and art ...

Ancient Rome didn’t abandon its gods overnight. The rise of Christianity was a slow transformation of the cult-based religious order that had structured Roman life for centuries ...

Earlier this year, a British museum said it was reclassifying an ancient Roman emperor, depicted on a coin in its collection, as a transgender woman. So what do historians think about this move and is ...

From dealing with nits to learning the three Rs, ancient Roman childhood bore some striking similarities to the modern ...

Caligula, the ancient Roman emperor infamous for his insanity and cruelty, may have had a soft spot for plants, according to recently published research. A new study co-authored by Trevor Luke, a ...

The Romans associated pants with barbarism and eventually banned them, but the legwear eventually became commonplace ...

This ancient queen of Palmyra conquered Egypt, captured Roman provinces, and nearly transformed her realm into an empire ...

Scholars Finally Decode 'Unreadable' Ancient Roman Tablets That No One Was Supposed to See ...