Several lines of evidence, including historical records and artistic depictions, suggest that female gladiators did exist in ...

Julius Caesar still casts a long shadow. We have a 12-month calendar — and leap year — thanks to Julius. July is named after him (though the salad isn’t). The words czar and kaiser, now mostly out of ...

A diamond brooch that French emperor Napoleon was said to have lost while fleeing from the Battle of Waterloo in the early ...

The first recorded personal name in human history didn’t belong to a king or a priest. It belonged to a Sumerian brewer named ...

The NFL’s first regular-season game in Berlin will be played in Europe's most contentious sporting venue. It has a complex ...

As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and scientists now say those roads stretched 50% longer than previously ...

Tiny symbols engraved into ancient Roman drinkware may be more than merely decorative accents. After two years of research, ...

As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and a new digital atlas shows that those roads stretched 50% longer than ...

In the hushed light of a museum gallery, Hallie Meredith discovered something intriguing about ancient Roman glasswork hiding ...

The digital tool, called Itiner-e, allows people to virtually see a map of how the ancient Roman roads were once traveled in ...

A publicly available project, Itiner-e also shows a bit of impressive historical revision is in order. It now appears that ...