Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a ritual-based site that may have been built long before the rise of Maya rulers ...

Historian Marc David Baer calls the Ottomans "very much a European empire" and "the unacknowledged part of the story the West ...

Archaeologists recently found a massive stone basin in Italy dating back more than 2,000 years — remnants of a once-powerful ...

Hundreds of tourists watched as firefighters used a mobile ladder to bring a stretcher to the upper level of the Torre dei Conti to rescue the worker who remained trapped.

Giant statues and a section of Trajan’s Column flaunt the might and culture of the empire under the successful ruler ...

Elon Musk funds AI-powered archaeology in Rome, pledging $1M to help researchers digitally rebuild ancient sites and rewrite ...

The ancient Romans were masters of building and engineering, perhaps most famously represented by the aqueducts. Those ...

One of the best-preserved cities of the ancient world, Pergamon sits near modern-day Turkey's west coast next to the city known as Bergama. Pergamon was a prosperous, cosmopolitan city that flourished ...

An excavation in Turkey has yielded not just artifacts — it's yielded millennia-old recipes that are bringing the flavors of Ancient Rome back to life. Archaeologists in Turkey recently completed digs ...

The story of the Gauls, ancient inhabitants of modern-day France, Belgium, Switzerland, and parts of Italy, offers a fascinating journey into a civilization often overshadowed by their Roman ...

Of all the comparisons between ancient Rome and modern America, the idea that the United States is destined to fall like the Roman Empire is the most persistent myth. While commentators often point to ...