acquired a 22-foot-long medieval scroll portraying a map of the world, from the Atlantic to the mouth of the Ganges, as it existed during the Roman Empire. The map's origins were obscure ...

According to a recent study, the Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA), a climate crisis in the 6th century lasting 200 to 300 years, may have contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire ...

Spanish archaeologists unearthed over 4,000 fragments of wall paintings that once decorated the Roman villa of Barberes Sud ...

In the ruins of an ancient Roman villa in Spain, researchers have unearthed over 4,000 fragments of murals painted in the ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

The Punic people had almost no genetic ties to Phoenicians, even though the latter founded the great city of Carthage.

New forecast maps reveal that ... damaged much of Spain prior to the hail showers in Malaga, including large swathes of the southern coast of Spain where an ancient Roman bridge was destroyed ...

The Romans did have status symbols, just like we do. Portable sundials weren’t very useful or precise, but they said a lot ...

The Phoenicians developed their ancient civilization with profits from the lucrative maritime trade of the Mediterranean.

Francis had led the Roman Catholic church since Benedict XVI ... south, east and west (see map 1). This method traces the Church’s complex history. The statistical centre started in the hills ...

Sancho I, ruler of the kingdom of Léon in the north of modern-day Spain, was overthrown by rebel ... considered heretical in the eastern Roman Empire, and had been forced to flee to Persia.

Map: Guilbert Gates ... the French provinces, and to Spain, which sent an army over the Pyrenees. By March, Portugal, the Kingdom of Naples and the Holy Roman Empire had joined the fray, creating ...