Janus was the god of transitions, and so the passing of the old year and the beginning of the new were sacred to him, writes ...

The ancient Greeks had a reputation for holding wild parties. But that’s not the only way to party like an ancient Greek.

In different passage, Aulus tells us about some bookstalls he came across when he arrived by ship at the port of Brundisium ...

A new book by historian and archaeologist Eve MacDonald paints a more complete portrait of the once-great African society ...

New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world. Early Roman Empire depiction of a Freedman and Freedwoman, 30-15 BCE. British Museum, London, UK.

A rare multicolored Roman-era brooch discovered near Grudziądz offers new insight into ancient trade, culture, and ...

Early Christian icons may have derived some of their stylistic elements from pagan religious portraits, according to some ...

Standing 154 feet tall, the column of Marcus Aurelius is located in the Piazza Colonna and intricately decorated with ...

A long-running and bitterly fought dispute over whether the earliest known hominin had a knuckle-walking gait, like ...

When divers plunged into the waters off Sicily’s Egadi Islands last summer, they didn’t just find rare artifacts from ...

There evening of December 31st the script usually provides the lentils on the fire, a table set to greet the passing year, a toasts at midnight and often a red garment. All this constitutes a social ...