Across the last 10,000 years, inequality has followed no single path. Instead of a straight rise tied to farming, population ...

It sounds awful to a modern person, but it seems the Romans did not complain about the smell of the ancient city that much.

Experts in London have spent three months piecing together the shattered remains of Roman artworks, revealing luxurious frescoes not seen for more than 1,800 years.

During a recent archaeological dig in Switzerland, historians unearthed a poignant collection of infant burials from Ancient Rome, accompanied by a variety of other intriguing artifacts.

Since the time of ancient Rome and Greece, people have dealt with love, this difficult emotion, in all its glory and calamity ...

The oldest of these houses was Roman, occupied until the third century; the second and third houses were Byzantine. ( 8 things people get wrong about ancient Rome.

Carol Ross' interest in ancient Roman currency and history led to her collection of over 130 coins. The sale of the coins was handled by New York auction house Doyle. One of the coins is a ...

The ancient Rome that remains today is one of fabulous marble buildings, built with superb skill to enormous scale. It is impressive now – it would have been even more impressive 2,000 years ago.

Archaeologists in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have uncovered a richly decorated but uncommonly small house with finely preserved frescoes of mythological scenes, the site said on Thursday.

A British tourist has been caught carving his daughters’ initials into an Ancient Roman house in Pompeii. The 37-year-old Englishman, who has not been named, allegedly used a sharp object to ...