Discovered on accident in Rimini, Italy, this surgeon’s house and the hooks, scalpels, and mortars inside have expanded what ...

Fragments of a rare Roman-era helmet were discovered alongside nearly 200 weapons, all buried in the foundations of two homes in Denmark. The first-of-its-kind find outside the borders of the Roman ...

In the 1960s, following partial destruction by a housing development, the remains of an ancient cemetery were covered by a museum pavilion. The Częstochowa-Raków necropolis was opened to the public in ...

Valentine’s Day traces its origins to ancient Rome, where it is believed to have started as Lupercalia, a mid-February ...

Thule is less known than other places in classical mythology like Atlantis. But Thule actually existed. The prickly question is, where was it?

Work to give 21st-century London yet another skyscraper has uncovered traces — in fact, chunks — of the city’s origins almost ...