The Vigiles were Rome’s own firefighters, in charge of reducing fire hazards in the city, as well as street crime.

The Roman Empire brought together millions of people of different cultures, ethnicities and religions. But how did its ...

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Researchers used advanced technology to digitally "unroll" an ancient Greek text on carbonized papyrus, and now they're ...

UK scientists have announced what they term a “historic breakthrough,” after the first image of the inside of a scroll ...

Ancient-DNA analyses identify a Caucasus Lower Volga people as the ancient originators of Proto-Indo-European, the precursor ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cleopatra ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.

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

One of the most famous objects in the British Museum is a bronze head of the Roman emperor Augustus that exudes charisma, ...

By day, she was the emperor’s wife, the most admired woman in Rome, who lived in a palace and wanted for nothing. By night, ...