Rome has uncovered the four large marble maps illustrating its evolution and expansion, from its foundation to the apex of its empire, hanging on the Via dei Fori, in front of the Colosseum, which had ...

Leaders in Civilization 7 are the cornerstone of your empire. What they bring to the table will influence not just gameplay mechanics but how you go about an entire playthrough.

It's been left unread for nearly 2,000 years. Now, scientists have used AI to virtually unfurl one of the Herculaneum scrolls ...

The devastating health effects of lead exposure are well-documented, even at low levels. Modern studies highlight how lead ...

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

In Augustus the Strong: A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco, Tim Blanning restores the ‘incorrigible Saxon’ to ...

He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

Have you also noticed it, the painful degradation of our cultural standards? How awfully elite that sounds! How ...

But Dr Koutsodendris said the researchers detected a big jump in atmospheric lead pollution levels in the region — from both the sea and the bog — around the fall of Greece in 146 BC as the Roman ...

Depending on how old you are, you might remember having to pull out a paper map to find your way around a place. Back then, ...

The scroll, found in the Judean desert, has been painstakingly translated from Nabataean, an ancient Arabic language.

Archaeologists have traced the earliest case of lead pollution by humans to the Aegean Sea region around 5,200 years ago. The ...