Discovered in the ruins of Tikal, the altar sheds light on strained relations between the Maya city and Teotihuacán—which was located more than 600 miles away ...

Sculptures are first-century Roman copies of Greek originals ... wears a lionskin headdress in an illustration from the 1800s. Ancient Macedonians prized the big-cat hunt and regarded a lion ...

A manuscript discovered in the Judean desert contains trial notes on an intricate tax-evasion scheme that involved forgery, ...

Walnuts, whose shells were frequently found in excavated layers, were among the most accessible nuts in ancient Rome. Romans valued them for their high fat content and long shelf life. Walnut ...

When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

The death of a pope sets in motion a series of carefully orchestrated rites and rituals well before the conclave to elect his ...

Francis upheld church teaching opposing abortion and echoed his predecessors in saying that human life is sacred and must be ...

Archaeologists excavated a construction site in Stuttgart and found an ancient Roman graveyard with over 100 military horses, officials said. Photo from the State Office for Monument Preservation ...

Photos show the ancient Roman structure. Photo from H. Wraunek, Land NÖ via the Austrian Academy of Sciences On a riverside in eastern Austria sat a mysterious set of ruins. Some believed it to ...

When digging through the rubble of an ancient church foundation, archaeologists found something unexpected. As crews in Rome ...