A rare Egyptian coffin image may show the Milky Way crossing the sky-goddess Nut, says a University of Portsmouth scientist.

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

Whether it is The Undertaker’s ‘Dead Man’ look at WrestleMania 14 or Roman Reigns’ God Mode theme at WrestleMania 39, WWE fans have been treated to some mesmerising entrances in the promotion’s ...

US Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic convert, spent Easter weekend in Rome, meeting with Giorgia Meloni and Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s second-highest official. US Vice President JD ...

Walnuts, whose shells were frequently found in excavated layers, were among the most accessible nuts in ancient Rome. Romans valued them for their high fat content and long shelf life. Walnut ...

Archaeologists excavated a construction site in Stuttgart and found an ancient Roman graveyard with over 100 military horses, officials said. Photo from the State Office for Monument Preservation ...

Photos show the ancient Roman structure. Photo from H. Wraunek, Land NÖ via the Austrian Academy of Sciences On a riverside in eastern Austria sat a mysterious set of ruins. Some believed it to ...

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Meanwhile, archaeologists also say they discovered an ancient city buried below Egypt’s pyramids. Researchers from Italy and Scotland claimed to have made the “groundbreaking” discovery ...

Many historians agree that the fall of the Western Roman Empire, usually dated to the fall of ancient Rome in 476 CE, marked the end of classical antiquity. What they don’t always agree on ...

To commit tax fraud with the slave trade in the most remote corner of the Roman world, what would you have to do, and what would have made the effort profitable? The ancient scheme has resonated ...