Ten minutes before the beginning of class, Professor Douglas Boin walks into the classroom and sets down his briefcase. Rather than beginning to set up for his lecture, Boin turns to two students ...

Almost every Roman city had large public latrines, where many people - often 20 or more - could relieve themselves in remarkably opulent settings. This video explores how the use, decoration, and ...

He was the mathematician who ran through the streets shouting “Eureka!” — but that was only a glimpse of his genius.

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

More than 160 cremation graves were discovered at the ancient site of Olbia, which began as a fortified Greek settlement around 350 B.C. in what is now the south of France. The ge ...

Panicked high schoolers were cramming about Julius Caesar's exploits as a Roman general and statesman after the error was ...

The tall, adult men probably died during the battle of Mursa in 260 C.E., according to a new analysis of their remains ...

“Haha! You thought it was a mango grove! Mangroves grow in coastal swamps and are characterised by those half-arial dense ...

Twins in ancient Greece and Rome were seen as divine signs or dangerous omens, revealing deep cultural fears about birth, ...

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 ...

Thanks to viral news coverage, experts are unraveling the mystery of how an ancient Roman soldier’s gravestone ended up in the garden of a New Orleans home. The untangling began when Erin Scott ...