The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and ...

The world’s oldest erotic graffiti was discovered in 2014 in Astypalaia, a remote island in Dodecanese, Greece.

Yet despite a wealth of data and new techniques including ancient DNA analysis ... the emblems of the Roman Tenth Legion (abbreviated “LEGX F”). First-century a.d. Roman writers including ...

Credit: Edgar Serrano, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY SA 2.0 Ancient Greek is the language that was ... of the Eastern parts of the Roman Empire. Koine Greek was used to write the Septuagint as well as the ...

Croatia In 301 A.D., the Emperor Diocletian made a bold but ultimately unsuccessful bid to address the inflation that was rampaging across the eastern half of the divided Roman Empire. Prices of ...

While global attention is focused on US President Donald Trump’s policies toward Europe, China, and Russia, his impact on Africa and Latin America could be just as profound. In the near term ...

Jones taught himself Sanskrit to interpret local laws and suggested that the ancient Indian language had a common ancestor with Latin, Greek and Old Iranian. DNA evidence shows that the proto ...

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Originally built in AD70 and then expended in AD90 – 120, London’s Roman basilica was a building unlike any other in Britain. Occupying nearly 2 hectares of land and standing at a height of up to 3 ...

Study co-lead Professor Tim Johnson, from Curtin University, said the discovery significantly challenged previous assumptions about our planet's ancient history. "Before our discovery, the oldest ...