POMPEII, Italy ( KMID/KPEJ) – A family frozen in time by the volcanic eruption that hit Pompeii nearly two millennia ago.

A fragment of cloth found in a royal tomb in Greece decades ago might be the remains of a tunic once worn by Alexander the ...

Alexander the Great is one of the legendary conquerors of ancient history who sparked the imagination of generations of ...

The late István Mészáros analyzes political theories from the ancient Greek philosophers forward in Beyond Leviathan: ...

When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved for ...

The plaque itself is a thin plate of gold with a Greek inscription dedicated to Jupiter Dolichenus—a god worshipped by Roman ...

Credit: Mattpopovich / CC0 / Wikimedia Commons The division of people into various social classes is a persistent feature across civilizations and was no less the case in ancient Greece where social ...

For example, one estimate is that one third of the Roman empire’s entire revenue was generated by taxes on trade with ancient India. Historian William Dalrymple’s latest book — The Golden ...

Lewis Hamilton says the "unlucky" timing of a yellow flag denied him Sprint qualifying pole at the United States Grand Prix. Hamilton appeared to be well in the battle for pole when he set the ...

dry conditions and warmer temperatures brought increased wildfire risks with a red flag warning issued. Strong gusty winds were forecasted in the Inland Empire, and nearly 120,000 of the utility's ...

The material, light tan and granular, had been a critical component of the Roman Empire, he said ... a scanning electron image of an ancient Roman concrete sample with lime clast, highlighted ...

There is no evidence that the state of Texas has declared bringing Pride flags to school classrooms a crime, as has been suggested by social media posts sharing a headline from a satirical website.