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 ...

Throughout its centuries-long existence, the Hagia Sophia has been a place of worship for many different religions and ...

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

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

No two tools in the 2,000-year-old kit were the same, indicating the owner was skilled in precise stonework, according to the study.

Mention the Orient Express and thoughts immediately go to visions of Agatha Christie and Belle Époque train travel. But when ...

Although molecular traces of ancient wines have been found staining pottery walls, this is the oldest wine in a liquid state ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A view of the St. Mary Major Basilica, where Pope ...

What did race and identity mean to the Romans? In this episode of Kings and Generals, we examine ancient views on ethnicity, using primary sources like Cicero and Julius Caesar to understand how ...

And he considered the ways the arts create history by confronting the present, providing an engine for cultural change. One month after Kennedy delivered this speech, he was assassinated.

Forget the Colosseum and what you've seen in the Gladiator film franchise - the latest evidence of ancient Roman brutality comes not from the heart of Italy, but from a quiet field in Yorkshire.

For most humans who have breathed Earth's air over the course of history, our deaths have disappeared from record, as completely as an exhalation. For one resident of the ancient Roman Empire, who met ...