The true date of the eruption has long eluded—and vexed—historians of the deadly disaster. Here’s what the archaeological ...

We know everything about male gladiators, but what about women in the arena? Historical research and archaeology demonstrate ...

During a routine archaeological survey near Grudziądz, Poland, members of the Grudziądz Fortress Association unearthed an ...

I sailed on the new Viking Vesta from Athens to Istanbul. The enriching experience was full of history and incredible views.

Wedding traditions are rooted in superstition, religion and cultural exchange, even as couples continue to reinterpret them ...

New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world. Early Roman Empire depiction of a Freedman and Freedwoman, 30-15 BCE. British Museum, London, UK.

A new book by historian and archaeologist Eve MacDonald paints a more complete portrait of the once-great African society ...

Beneath the shifting waters of Alexandria's eastern harbor, on Egypt's Mediterranean coast, lie the drowned remnants of a once-splendid city—ports, palaces and temples swallowed by the sea. Submerged ...

ROME (AP) — Rome opened two subway stations on Tuesday — one deep beneath the Colosseum — that mix the modernity of high-tech transport with artifacts from an ancient era. Commuters and tourists ...

An excavation in Senon, France, unearthed three amphorae full of ancient Roman coins that had been buried under the floor of what was once a living room. This region of France was once populated by a ...

Evidence of Roman engineering ingenuity is not in short supply. From Rome’s Pantheon to the Pont du Gard aqueduct in southern France to the Alcántara Bridge on the Iberian Peninsula, large-scale ...