A study of ancient DNA from Europeans between 1700 and 45,000 years ago suggests that 63 percent of them had dark skin.

Columella’s “own community” was the region of what is today Cádiz in Spain.

Spectacular statues reveal art tradition of ancient Rome’s lost sculpture capital - City of Perga on Turkey’s southwestern ...

Airborne particles from minting coins damaged health, a new study says, and might have contributed to the Roman Empire’s ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

Pompeii only came under Roman control around 160 years before its destruction – and its traffic-worn streets show how the ...

The museum dropped a legal effort to block the seizure of the statue by investigators who said the bronze, thought by some to ...

Since humans discovered the power and capability that comes with numbers, we have lived in societies that enable us to … ...

Ben-Hur” (1959), which celebrated its 65th anniversary this past November, stands as a quintessential example of everything ...

Feb. 9 to Feb. 15, is chock full of wars and tragedies as usual, although it has the distinction of marking a unique holiday: Valentine’s Day.

What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?

An rare discovery in northern Luxembourg has given historians a fresh glimpse into the final years of the Western Roman ...