A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the ...

A new analysis of classical medical texts suggests dementia was extremely rare in ancient Greece and Rome 2,000 to 2,500 ...

The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the ...

Gladiator combat is a well-documented aspect of ancient Roman society, but the physical remains of fighters have remained ...

This Celtic celebration of fire and fertility culminates in the marriage of the May Queen and the Green Man—and the arrival ...

The Antikythera Mechanism, a 2,000-year-old Greek astronomical calculator, was found in a Roman-era shipwreck near Antikythera. With 30+ gears tracking celestial events, this Hellenistic marvel from ...