Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry ...

Sacred springs and rivers throughout Ancient Greece were revered as sources of divine power, associated with healing, ...

In Ancient Rome, to enforce discipline among its military, commanders often would order "decimation," which was the practice ...

Women didn’t generally get invited to banquets except on rare occasions such as wedding feasts—and even then they were expected to sit upright. It was only in ancient Rome that customs changed, ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

Instead, the archaeologists — budding and not — last summer uncovered what may be the oldest existing example in the ancient Roman world of a mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath. They have ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

In the wake of the Palisades fire, should Malibu's Getty Villa and the Getty Center in nearby Brentwood evacuate — for good?

One powerlifter academic may have found a way to build lifelong, full-body strength and stability in a very old and rare source.

The quake was the strongest in recorded history around the Phlegrean Fields, a sprawling area of ancient volcanoes that ...

Fashion and creativity from Rome's academies take 'Shape': this is the name of the event on March 21 and 22 that will bring together young designers from Roman schools with major international ...

The miraculous origin of the spring at Lourdes in France is well-documented, but in Ireland, there are about 3,000 holy wells ...