From its origins — whether in Ancient Rome, medieval England, or Renaissance Europe — to today, April Fools' Day has always ...

More than 50 years later, some Houston families still wait for confirmation that their sons and brothers were among the ...

In ancient Greece or Rome ... cloth and finished clothing exported from poor countries to rich ones. The rich ones agreed to accept fixed quantities, or quotas. The U.S. might admit 10 million ...

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...

Rome, with a population of around 75 million, had an average income equivalent to about 2.25 times the subsistence minimum — ...

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology.

A life-sized statue has been discovered in Pompeii of an ancient Roman woman thought to have been a priestess in a fertility cult. The statue decorated the façade of a monumental tomb dedicated ...

The figures appear to represent a married couple. Experts think the woman, who is holding laurel leaves, may have been a priestess Cool Finds The graveyard of Liternum, near Naples, was in use ...

"Anyone who comes to Rome can see the same afterglow Caesar would have seen. You aren't in a place that doesn't exist anymore. Rome was rebuilt on top of its ancient structures." For Angela ...

Instead, the archaeologists — budding and not — last summer uncovered what may be the oldest existing example in the ancient Roman world of a mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath. They have ...

“DNA extracted from two pastoralist women who were buried at the rock shelter around 7,000 years ago reveals that most of their ancestry can be traced to a previously unknown ancient North ...