I've been working as a tour guide in Rome since 2008, and it only seems to be getting more crowded with tourists. Instead, go ...

With artefacts on loan from the British Museum, this modest show reminds us of the astonishing heritage of a country now ...

After an amateur archaeologist found a Roman dagger in the hills of Switzerland in 2019, experts flocked to the site to carry ...

A hoard of 50 Roman coins discovered by an amateur metal detectorist buried in a farmer's field in a 'once in a lifetime find ...

The remains of Alexander the Great may lie under the streets of Alexandria, they may have been "eaten by a shark," or they ...

In 1631, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I commissioned the Taj Mahal to house the tomb of his favorite wife. With its symmetrical ...

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

Archaeologists have uncovered a rare ancient Roman artifact that has revealed previously unknown places lost to time. The ...

A cross inlaid in the floor of a library marks the spot where Indiana Jones has to dig to access the ancient catacombs of ... To find catacombs, go to Rome, home of some of the oldest and longest ...

A remarkable ancient papyrus has shed new light on Roman legal proceedings in the Near East. Scholars from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna and the Hebrew University of ...

The numeral IX is written as X (10) - I (1), which equals 9. While Roman numerals (unsurprisingly) date back to ancient Rome, they are used in many facets of society beyond the Super Bowl, including ...

But many have occupied themselves with questions about the role of Jews in ancient Rome’s famous bloodsport ... tree relief was specific to Jewish culture at the time and was likely worn ...