Looking for random tidbits to bring out at your next dinner party? Here are 167 random fun facts suitable for anyone in your ...

Joshua Hammer’s “The Mesopotamian Riddle” chronicles the 19th-century contest between an archaeologist, a soldier and a clergyman to decipher an ancient text ...

C hoosing a baby name is one of the most exciting parts of preparing for parenthood, but it can also be challenging. With endless name possibilities, especially for baby girls, de ...

The ancient Greek language did not have a single set of ... which had stopped being used in other dialects (even though it managed to reach our times as the letter ‘F’ of the Latin alphabet). This can ...

As people across the globe celebrate World Poetry Day on March 21, we delve into the world of poetry in ancient Greece, from ...

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Now a popular tourist destination along the Adriatic coast, Rimini—or Ariminum in ancient times—had been a major Roman town for centuries, and the modern city is strewn with monuments from ...

DELOS, GREECE—Many museums around the world are filled with marble statues from ancient Greece and Rome. Some viewers recognize that these works of art were not originally displayed in their ...

Who knew ancient Roman emperors could be so relatable? In 'The Lives of the Caesars', written by the scholar Suetonius in the second century, we’re treated to juicy tales of political missteps ...

Instead, the archaeologists — budding and not — last summer uncovered what may be the oldest existing example in the ancient Roman world of a mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath. They have ...