The ancient silk industry itself is bound up with legends about ... bitumen chunks and probably also a pottery bottle from the Middle East, and a set of eastern Mediterranean silverware, including a ...

In his seaside workshop on the Greek island of Lesbos, Dimitris Kouvdis uses ancient techniques to create pottery pieces that ...

Gladiator training, drama, history, mythology and a Roman feast all featured prominently when Edinburgh’s Fettes College welcomed pupils from other schools for a Classics Day. Did you know with ...

According to accounts of ancient Roman writers, the following year, once Agrippina was confident Nero’s succession was assured, she had Claudius poisoned. The ancient authors who depicted ...

researchers were able to see inside the mummies in the Chicago Field Museum's collections. Their findings paint a more comprehensive picture of ancient Egyptian life ...

As actor Paul Mescal prepares to step into the laced-up sandals of Hollywood star Russell Crowe for a return to the Colosseum in Gladiator II, the discovery of a Roman artifact in England proves the ...

A small town in the Aragón region of Spain was saved from recent floods that killed more than 200 by an ancient Roman dam. Almonacid de la Cuba, a small town in the province of Zaragoza, Aragón in ...

More than a century ago, the scientist Alfred Wegener proposed the notion of an ancient supercontinent, which he named Pangaea (sometimes spelled Pangea), after putting together several lines of ...

Credit: Jean Léon Gérôme / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons The Roman gladiatorial games were a far cry from the Olympic and theatrical pursuits enjoyed in ancient Greece, but the Greeks played an ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE - Tourists walk by the ancient Roman Colosseum as it’s reflected in a puddle, in Rome, Sept. 5, 2024 ...