Starting February 1, tourists will pay $2.35 to visit the Trevi Fountain during daylight hours. Proceeds will go towards ...

Across the Mediterranean, hulking Roman harbors, aqueducts and amphitheaters still stand where modern concrete would have ...

Roman concrete has shrugged off two millennia of earthquakes, wars, and weather that would pulverize most modern structures ...

Scientists excavating the ruins of Pompeii have discovered a construction site left frozen in time by the eruption of Italy’s ...

At first, the archaeologists assumed the images came from Homer’s Iliad, the best-known account of the war. The scenes seemed ...

An ancient historian at the University of Leicester has found that the Rutland mosaic presents a version of the Trojan War that differs from the story told in Homer’s Iliad. Researchers studying what ...

The complete history of stadium design across the world and how modern venues still take shape based on ancient principles ...

Excavations of an ancient construction site in Pompeii have revealed the process of how Romans mixed their self-healing concrete.

Everyone is familiar with the general nativity story of Christmas, but what were the political and social conditions of Jesus ...

Researchers are uncovering new details about Egypt's northern coast through ancient Greek and Roman ruins at Darazya, near El ...

The time has nearly arrived. Six weeks from this Sunday, on Nov. 27, the First Sunday of Advent, the Catholic Church in the United States will begin praying a new English translation of the Mass.