Laura Coffey went on a quest to find the real-life islands that inspired the wanderings of Homer’s epic hero, Odysseus ...

Roman society was, in many ways, surprisingly sophisticated. It built remarkable things like aqueducts that snaked over long ...

If you enjoyed 1800's gently gripping mix of city-planning, production-chain linking, and nautical exploration, Anno 117 ...

An excavation at the Tell Abu Sefeh site in Egypt revealed sophisticated military fortifications from the Ptolemaic and Roman ...

Ancient military fortifications dating back to the Ptolemaic and Roman eras of Egyptian history were recently uncovered by ...

The Banquet of Cleopatra' by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770). Ancient ideas about diet were grounded in archaic theories about how the body worked. Most Greek and Roman doctors believed that ...

Night - Clear. Winds variable. The overnight low will be 52 °F (11.1 °C). Partly cloudy with a high of 78 °F (25.6 °C). Winds variable at 4 to 11 mph (6.4 to 17.7 kph). Partly cloudy today ...

And in case we picture Pompeii as always hot and sunny, remember that our mental image of Ancient Rome often comes from Hollywood movies, necessarily filmed in bright sunshine. Winters in Rome or ...

Banana traces in 3,000-years-olf Philistine teeth rewrite Iron Age trade map. Illustration. (photo credit: Rushay. Via Shutterstock) Aren Maeir of Bar-Ilan University and Philipp Stockhammer of ...

Intersection. Junction. Link. These words aptly describe Sicily’s crossroad role in the Mediterranean Sea. Given Sicily’s ...