The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD buried Pompeii and Herculaneum, preserving Roman life in ash. Recent discoveries, ...

Hadrian’s Wall — a 73-mile construction across northern Britain that marked the frontier of the Roman Empire — is no stranger to penis imagery. The nearly 2,000-year-old example of Roman engineering ...

Italy is home to the highest number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the world. These sites not only showcase Italy's ...

It was the violent profitability of slavery as an exploitative labor system that allowed for the region to prosper, the study demonstrates.

For over two thousand years, successive societies forged the civilization of ancient Greece. From the early societies of the ...

The nearly 2,000-year-old example of Roman engineering is covered in penile carvings, thanks to the ancient citizens and ... Now, another phallic-shaped art piece has been discovered, this time ...

Featuring everything from ancient stone circles to world-class museums and mighty castles, these photographs show the UK's ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

It is thought to be the only giraffe bone ever recorded from an archaeological excavation in Roman Italy ... lived ash cloud that swept through the ancient town of Herculaneum in 79CE.

A Roman thought to be a gladiator stares out in a visual reconstruction of a man who met a gruesome end almost 2,000 years ...