At the edge of the Mediterranean, off the coast of modern-day Alexandria, an international team has recovered 22 immense ...

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Workers at the Egyptian port city of Alexandria have recovered 22 massive stone blocks that were used thousands of years ago ...

The roar of the arena crowd, the bustle of the Roman forum, the grand temples, the Roman army in red with glistening shields and armour – when people imagine ancient Rome, they often think of its ...

A volcanic eruption sank Aenaria nearly 2,000 years ago. Now, underwater tours and ongoing excavations are bringing Ischia's ...

Laccaic acid, thought to be produced by lac insects, is produced by a symbiont similar to the zombie ant fungus ...

We can probably safely assume Rome, in many areas, was likely pretty dirty and rank-smelling. That said, there's evidence of ...

Pliny actually punished Christians for their faith. If Jesus were a myth or His execution a hoax, Tacitus would have reported it as such.

In 111 A.D. Pliny the Younger wrote in a letter to Emperor Trajan about Christians: ...it was their habit on a fixed day to assemble before daylight and recite by turn a form of words to Christ as ...