Hundreds of weapons from the Roman era have been unearthed in a park in a city located in southeastern France. These findings are thought to be remnants of the Battle of Lyon, which occurred on ...

The ancient Athenian writer Isocrates (436–338 BC) once commented: "Many cities judge those who excel in the athletic contests to be worthy of greater rewards than those who, by painstaking thought ...

The Second Punic War was one of the greatest struggles of the ancient world. Carthaginian general Hannibal led his army, including war elephants, across the Alps to invade Italy. He crushed Roman ...

An ancient Roman bronze helmet from 241 B.C. was discovered in extraordinary condition near Italy's Aegates Islands, where ...

Historian Josephine Quinn explores how the Phoenicians and their great colony, Carthage, built a maritime empire that once ...

Israeli airstrikes targeting Lebanon's eastern city of Baalbek threaten to put at risk some of the largest and best-preserved temples constructed by ancient Rome, the United Nations' cultural agency ...

A millennia-old helmet that saw ancient Rome’s first great Mediterranean war was recently unearthed in Italy. The find was announced by the Sicilian regional government in a Sept. 5 announcement. In a ...

Examine the multiculturalism that defined Imperial Rome. Examine the multiculturalism that defined Imperial Rome, a city of nearly a million people drawn from across the Roman Empire. Much like the ...

A new study analyzing declassified Cold War satellite imagery reveals 396 previously undocumented Roman forts and reports that these forts were constructed from east to west, spanning from what is now ...

A bronze battering ram recovered from the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. Photo: Soprintendenza del Mare An Italian cultural heritage outfit has announced the recovery of a Roman battering ram from ...