In his new book The Silver Empire: how Germany created its first common currency, which forms the basis of this event, Oliver Volckart analyses why the vast majority of the approximate 300 members of ...

The Roman basilica of St. John Lateran marks the 1,700th anniversary of its dedication on Saturday, Nov. 9. It’s a feast day ...

the skeleton includes bones dating to the Neolithic period and a Roman-era skull, according to a new study Sonja Anderson The votive plaque was found amid the ruins of an ancient Roman fortress.

Step into the past and uncover the secrets of Rhodes Ancient Greece, where hidden treasures and untold stories await your ...

Armed with new tools, scholars are finally able to read papyrus scrolls long deemed too fragile to open. The breakthrough could literally change history.

The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, also called Borametz and Polypodium Borametz, or “Chinese polypody,” is a plant shaped like a ...

The Detroit Institute of Arts recently acquired a 16th century automation clock, which is the first timepiece made before the ...

All the major elements of NASA’s next flagship space telescope are now under one roof as NASA says its development remains on cost and schedule.

Holy water is also removed from the fonts in ... They were writing for an audience beyond Palestine, and in the Roman Empire of the first century, there was no general consensus about the names ...

The material, light tan and granular, had been a critical component of the Roman Empire, he said ... of Pompeii Roman concrete derives much of its strength from a mixture of calcium aluminate ...

There are quite a few literary and cinematic works about the First Crusade, and in most of them, beginning with the anonymous ...