Movies are among the most powerful drivers of pop culture, which is why the images and ideas they present often leave a ...

When Spartacus hit theaters in 1960, audiences expected another grand sword-and-sandals spectacle with Roman armies, ...

Cultivated since ancient times, corn has a long history that spans time and the world. Corn is a global staple: Across the ...

Hippocrates is the father of traditional Ancient Greek medicine. Credit: Raed Mansour / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0 A new academic study highlights how medical ideas from ancient Greece and Rome ...

Archaeologists working in central Italy have uncovered a Roman-era mosaic and at least two centuries-old burials that were found during routine installation of fiberoptic cable. The discovery occurred ...

On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered the text on the Rosetta stone, opening a window into ancient Egyptian civilization. The stone had been ...

Egyptian archaeologists recently uncovered a hidden harbor at an ancient temple connected to Cleopatra VII – an unexpected find for historians. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

Archaeologists think the bench may have been used by visitors who came to meet with the villa's owner. Archaeological Park of Pompeii At the entrance of a famous villa in Pompeii, researchers have ...

When we picture the history of money, many imagine barter leading naturally to coins, then paper bills, then cards and digital balances. But new research led by University at Albany Anthropology ...

Many Americans today mistakenly believe that slavery was invented by America or that it existed only in the context of the transatlantic slave trade. This narrow view—often echoed in modern demands ...

Doomed Egyptian queen Cleopatra has captured the imaginations of people all over the world for centuries. Archaeologists have long sought to locate her tomb, which she shared with her lover, Mark ...

From a mosaic of flip-flops in Sicily to Cicero’s possible sauna, new discoveries prove that bathing has always been about more than getting clean. Ancient Roman flip-flop mosaic from the Villa Romana ...