In the display cases of the Egyptian Museum of Berlin lies a fragile piece of papyrus that speaks not of turbulent romances ...

Lone Star Ballet fuses classical dance with modern flair in Cleopatra’s epic story of ambition and tragedy this weekend in ...

Beauty and wellness types are embracing saffron, with a wave of products making the ancient ingredient feel new again.

Across the ancient Mediterranean, few luxury commodities were as prized, rare, and expensive as Tyrian purple, a dye used in ...

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a 2,900-year-old factory that produced Tyrian purple dye — a luxurious commodity for ...

Neandertal genetic traces: The ancient individuals had significantly less Neandertal DNA compared to people ... and cultural evolution in this key region," added senior author Savino di Lernia from ...

Archaeologists often spend long amounts of time at a dig site, only to dig up garbage such as bottle caps and soda cans, or ...

Archaeologists have made a 'once in a lifetime discovery' as a capital city of an ancient European civilisation has been ...

When Roman Egypt came under attack from the Kushites in what is now Sudan, the Roman forces responded by destroying a Kushite ...

Yet today, the only reference you will find to her in pop culture is as a minor character in the hack-and-slash video game Dante’s Inferno (where she is called “the greediest woman in all of Rome”).

15 years ago, researchers began excavating what they thought were the remains of a military outpost, built to guard against ...