Some cities are more than just places to visit—they are living museums, preserving centuries of history, culture, and ...

Founded around 331 BCE, this city somehow survived conquests, earthquakes, and centuries of abandonment, only to reemerge as one of the best-preserved Greco-Roman cities in the world. Unlike ruins ...

Amazing stories behind the world's most historic cities where every pavement, every monument, every corner has an incredible ...

To reach these results, scientists analyzed evidence from both ancient Roman and modern cities to see how wealth – particularly elite wealth – scales with city size. The data for Roman cities included ...

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Unused paints are generally rare finds for archaeologists — but not at Pompeii. Take a look at “almost the entire palette of an ancient painter.” ...

The Etruscans and Romans were fierce rivals and clashed in pivotal wars. What were the major battles that defined this ...

Digging into the lawn of a historic mansion in the capital city of Slovakia, archaeologists and their team of university students expected to find some ancient Roman artifacts but what emerged shocked ...

Few figures in history have been as polarizing as Nero, the infamous Roman emperor who had a love affair with everything ...