Mexico City lawmakers recently voted to ban violent bullfighting in the country’s capital. Animal rights advocates celebrated ...

Pope Leo XIV will be known for many things, including being the first American pope and the first Augustinian pope, but he ...

Yves-Bernard Debie, a noted private collector of Roman and Egyptian antiquities and a partner in the Brussels-based law-firm ...

Archaeologists uncovered walls that date back to between the 9th and 13th century, be part of the Patriarchate. The discovery ...

In ancient Roman times, the modern-day city of Utrecht was known as Trajectum ad Rhenum and functioned as a border fort built around a branch of the Rhine River. Based on their recent finds, ...

Alongside the fort, the mission uncovered housing units, the eastern gates of the two known forts, a limestone road, and ...

Since the late 1980s, archaeologists have been working at the site of the ancient city of Zeugma in eastern Turkey -- founded ...

The new "Asterix" show on Netflix revives the comics' use of a "Roman" salute that actually has nothing to do with antiquity.

There’s nothing new about our modern obsession with playing and watching sports—they were popular in ancient Greek and Roman ...

PHerc. 172 is one of hundreds of scrolls found in the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum, buried under volcanic debris of ...

A nearly yearlong excavation project in northern Switzerland is offering a glimpse into life in some of the Roman empire’s ...

For the first time, bite marks made by a large cat, possibly an African lion, have been identified on the bones of what is ...