The Roman Republic lasted nearly 500 years, about twice as long as Americans have had theirs. As was surely true for the ...

In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the ...

Roman museums are among the most elegantly designed of any in the world and its archaeological sites are the most user-friendly. Massimo Siragusa / Constrasto / Redux Climbing the Campidoglio, or ...

We're living in a period where the gap between rich and poor is dramatic, and it's continuing to widen. But inequality is nothing new. In a new study researchers compared house size distributions from ...

A manuscript discovered in the Judean desert contains trial notes on an intricate tax-evasion scheme that involved forgery, ...

Archaeologists launch a project to analyze 4,000 Roman bricks from Trier, Germany, revealing insights into ancient building ...

Although the team obviously can’t tie zircon minerals to the Roman Empire’s collapse, their lengthy migration inside frozen ...

Senate Republicans are deeply divided over demands by House conservatives to cut at least ... who say Congress needs to cut much more than $1.5 trillion from federal programs over the next 10 ...

When Western tourists who are visiting Istanbul, Turkey, cruise into a port, many typically look for one particular landmark: the Hagia Sophia. Identifying the ancient temple, which has served as ...