For the Ancient Greeks, virtue was the most important quality a person could have, and being virtuous was the absolute goal ...

Ghosts stories appear in several surviving texts from ancient Rome. What do they reveal about the people who told them?

Archaeologists uncover how early humans in Italy butchered elephants and forged survival from their bones 400,000 years ago.

Now at the Kimbell Art Museum, this exhibition is the first in the U.S. to display works from a vast, vital Italian collection, featuring sculptures that reflect Roman innovation and ambition.

Beneath the mosaic floors of Roman villas, an ingenious system of underfloor heating transformed warmth into a mark of power ...

NEW ORLEANS — A New Orleans family cleaning up their overgrown backyard made an extremely unusual find: Under the weeds was a mysterious marble tablet with Latin characters that included the phrase ...

A New Orleans family cleaning up their overgrown backyard made an extremely unusual find: Under the weeds was a mysterious marble tablet with Latin characters that included the phrase “spirits of the ...

An artifact was unearthed by a couple in New Orleans, Louisiana as they did a little work in their backyard. This may not sound like a surprise, given how old the city is, until you realize this ...

More than 2,000 years ago, the depiction of living leaders on Roman coins caused similar ructions. It came at a time when the ...