Why was Alexander the Great seen by the Romans as the greatest military leader of the ancient world? This question would ...

A separate investigation turned up more than 300 items, including ancient coins, metal and weapons dating to Roman times, offered for sale online and discovered in a private apartment. In Greece, ...

Credit: Historiska Museet, CC BY-ND Taken together, these strands of evidence show that pregnant women could, at least in art and stories, be engaged with violence and weapons. These were not ...

A recent archaeological excavation in Switzerland turned morbid when historians came across a trove of infant burials dating back to Ancient Rome. The excavation began last May in order to make ...

The most feared weapons of the ancient world didn’t necessarily break the mold when it came to battlefield innovation. In some cases, these were perfectly in line with the weapons used by other ...

An earthquake in Croatia led to a chain of events that helped archaeologists recently discover an ancient Roman theater, officials say. Croatia’s Ministry of Culture and Media announced the find ...

With that in mind, today, we’re looking at ancient weapons well ahead of the curve. Sieges are a common part of warfare. Eventually, most superior forces will encircle an encampment or ...

A group of students recently recreated a rice dish using an ancient recipe – and the results were unusual. The challenge was undertaken by researchers at the Yuelu Academy of Hunan University in ...

In a region of southern Siberia, ancient weapons were found stashed in a museum. Eugene Mutovin via Unsplash Decades after they were accidentally discovered, a group of rare ancient weapons are ...

Archaeologists at Big Bend National Park made a fascinating discovery of possibly the oldest ancient weapons in North America. Deep inside a cave, researchers found dart tips, a boomerang and a ...

The ancient weapons include notched ends for the darts of a spear thrower, or atlatl; the foreshafts of darts that had stone tips; and the foreshafts of darts that were probably poisoned.