Like all women of their time, Asellina and Zmyrina could not vote. But they found influence in their own ways. Asellina owned ...

Who were the women who inhabited ancient Pompeii? A new exhibition of art, objects, and personal testimonies has the answers.

A team led by Washington State University has successfully recreated a millennia-old pigment first synthesized in ancient ...

Traces of drug use go back to ancient times with research showing that the Greeks and Romans used and sometimes abused ...

The tradition of animal sacrifice is an ancient one dating to as early as the Neolithic Period as the early hunter gatherers ...

Victoria was highly revered by the ancient Romans; during times of war, she was often credited for battlefield success.

Archaeologists recently uncovered the remains of a remarkably well-preserved dog from ancient ... Roman scholar] Varro's work 'De Re Rustica,' it appears that dogs were sometimes used in rituals ...

Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures were not just experienced ... a social gathering where they participate in rituals related to Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and theater. There were also ...

The ancient Greeks and Romans often doused their statues in perfume, a recent study found. Published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology, the study adds to evidence that statues were more than ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered the remains of a remarkably well-preserved dog from ancient ... Roman scholar] Varro’s work ‘De Re Rustica,’ it appears that dogs were sometimes used in ...