Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii.

Artificial intelligence is helping to solve an ancient mystery from the Roman Empire. It involves scrolls from a library that ...

We need to have backups already in place before disaster strikes, whether that’s warehouses in different towns, top-notch ...

A loaf of bread, divided into eight slices, lies preserved in Pompeii, where it was found inside an earthen oven. Wheat bread ...

A carved panel found at Nimrud depicts Assyrian soldiers swimming across a river and using inflatable goat skins as floaties.

Underwater archaeologists found a Roman breakwater made from recycled architectural fragments off the coast of Bacoli in ...

The museum, which is reachable only by the newly reopened Pacific Coast Highway, will be open limited hours from 10 a.m. to 5 ...

One of only three surviving Byzantine crowns, it depicts a man and two sisters who jointly ruled the empire in the 11th century.

In 1824, the island of Psara faced a brutal invasion by Ottoman forces. The islanders, known as Psariots, mounted a fierce ...