Hadrian’s Wall stretched 80 Roman miles, from coast to coast. A monumental feat of engineering that marked the edge of the ...

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While London offers many attractions, royal palaces charge substantial fees for access to state-owned treasures. Despite ...

Scientists have now re-examined the 2000-year-old skeleton and its DNA with new techniques. Dr William Marsh, one of our ...

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The Temple of Khnum at Esna, about 37 miles south of Luxor, is a late Ptolemaic- and Roman-era site that once stood as one of Upper Egypt’s major cult centers. In 2018, Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and ...

Want to walk in the footsteps of Roman emperors? Now you can because an ancient secret passageway in Rome's Colosseum used exclusively by emperors is now open to the public for the first time since ...

Before you head out to forage mushrooms in the woods, it might be wise to download a guide with species found in Virginia.

A $2.3 million restoration is using advanced laser technology to clean and preserve the 1,840-year-old Rome’s Column of Marcus Aurelius.

A newly discovered monumental arch in Serbia reveals a family’s rise to power in the late second century a.d. Archaeologists unearthed foundations (in box, above right) of a late second- or early ...