Bones discovered in a cesspit in Mallorca show this item was likely fried and served by urban street vendors to lower and ...

Between 2014 and 2020 alone, 86 buildings completely crumbled, and 201 partially collapsed across the 2,300-year-old city.

Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, was responsible for creating five of the seven wonders of the ancient ...

The Milesian School was based in Miletus and produced three great thinkers who were the pioneers of philosophy in ancient ...

Now Italy is restoring the ancient road, hoping to create a pilgrimage route through history. Rome’s third-century ... The only problem: There was no modern map of the route.

Caligula proved a popular choice as emperor, both in Rome and in the provinces ... and reign comes from six ancient writers: Seneca the Younger and Philo of Alexandria, both of whom knew him ...

Lead pollution in ancient Rome was so high that it dropped the population’s IQ by around 3 points, if not more. Elites were exposed to lead through water pipes, cooking pots, bath tubs ...

Lead pollution in ancient Rome may have dropped the average IQ by up to three points, a new study has found. In the paper, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...

The ancient Egyptians ... Egyptian god. Today Rome has 13 Egyptian obelisks, far more than any other city—or country—in the world. Detail from a 16th-century map of the Italian city ...

One of the most famous ancient accounts of passionate love is found in the writings of the physician Galen (126–219 AD) who worked in Rome ... a man travelling in Alexandria, Egypt, wrote ...