From the sleek, deadly triremes to the colossal tessarakonteres, ancient Greek ships inspired modern ship design.

A scattering of pock marks on Pompeii’s city walls may prove a mythological “super weapon” may have been real after all.

From the fairytale towers of Bavaria’s Neuschwanstein to the golden battlements of Jaipur’s Amber Fortress in India, these ...

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Credit: Mike Bishop / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 A recent study suggests Roman forces may have used a rare ancient Greek repeating ballista—known as the polybolos and sometimes described as a ‘machine gun of ...

The Komnenos Dynasty came from obscure origins to revive the Byzantine Empire after a disastrous period of weak emperors and military setbacks. Alexios Komnenos took power in 1081 CE and began an ...

Ancient military fortifications dating back to the Ptolemaic and Roman eras of Egyptian history were recently uncovered by archaeologists. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

University students and archaeologists located an ancient Roman military camp beyond the empire’s northern frontier in the Netherlands. Photo from Constructing the Limes A team of university ...

Italian police say they chased down a German tourist after spotting him transporting an ancient Roman artifact on a rented e-scooter. Officers apprehended the 24-year-old on Wednesday evening ...