Spartacus, a Thracian gladiator who had once served in the Roman army, escaped from slavery in 73 BCE. What began as a prison ...

A re-analysis of the burials, including radiocarbon dating, has revealed that, rather than dying in a single event, ...

An ancient Roman symbol of victory in battle surfaced in a pile of rubble at Hadrian’s Wall in Vindolanda, Great Britain, to ...

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Göran Bengtsson, a hobby archaeologist, was studying an 18th-century map of southwestern Sweden when he noticed something unusual.

The relief depicts a woman, identified by archaeologists as the goddess Victoria, or Victory, according to the release. The counterpart to Greek goddess Nike, Victoria personified victory and was ...

The latest Central Texas burn bans, Travis County, Williamson County burn bans, and statewide Texas burn bans show where outdoor burning is currently prohibited in Texas due to drought conditions.

The Appian Way symbolized the Roman Empire’s might ... The only problem: There was no modern map of the route. He contacted Riccardo Carnovalini, a prominent hiker who has spent nearly four ...

A cool skill that scans screenshots of specific locations is now available in Google Maps for both iOS and Android. After identifying the name and other details of the location, the app lets you ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected as the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church A short time after white smoke billowed from the chimney on the Sistine Chapel on the afternoon of Thursday ...

The term “Celtic” often serves as an umbrella term for the “barbarian” people of Europe living outside the Greco-Roman cultural sphere. The Celts varied ethnically but have historically been grouped ...

The study, by researchers from Virginia Tech and several other U.S. universities, used satellite data to map out vertical land movements in 28 of the most populous cities, those where populations ...