Cardinals return to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday to resume voting to elect the 267th pontiff of the Catholic Church after the first conclave ballot failed to find a winner, sending billowing black ...

For the first time, bite marks made by a large cat, possibly an African lion, have been identified on the bones of what is ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A nearly yearlong excavation project in northern Switzerland is offering a glimpse into life in some of the Roman empire’s ...

We learn that it’s not just the overwhelmingly White and male field of Classics that is to blame for the lack of attention paid to the everyday workers of Ancient Egypt and Rome, but also the ...

Scholars believe a language used 5,000 years ago on the Asian steppe was the source of many of the world’s modern tongues.

Was the Phoenician writing system a true alphabet? If not, what should it be called instead, and what was the earliest true ...

Contestants in the ongoing Vesuvius Challenge continue to reveal more information about the calcified scrolls once buried by ...

The election of Pope Leo XIV, who is the first U.S. pope and has Creole roots, is raising more awareness about the complexity ...

Study challenges long-standing beliefs about the Mediterranean Phoenician-Punic civilization, a culture recognized as one of the most influential maritime powers in history. The Phoenician culture ...