Today, AD joins architect Nick Potts in London to uncover the city’s ancient Roman origins. Before London, there was Londinium, the capital of Roman Britain, and although it was abandoned by AD 450, ...

Faithful and nuns gather by the statue of Pope Pius IX, inside in St. Mary Major basilica, where Pope Francis will be buried, ...

The Romans did have status symbols, just like we do. Portable sundials weren’t very useful or precise, but they said a lot ...

A ccording to a recent study, the Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA), a climate crisis in the 6th century lasting 200 to 300 ...

Skip the endless searching with Rome2Rio. Trying to get from point A to point B? If only it were that simple! With any manner ...

Rome is creating a new 50-km ring road for cyclists and walkers as part of an ambitious project known as Grande Raccordo ...

Southeastern Italy may be better known for its beaches and burrata, but it’s also layered with ancient Greek and Roman ...

Elon Musk has linked modern-day population decline to ancient Rome. The original post listed three reasons why people today are having fewer children: "Kids no longer earn — some stay in school till ...

Over the past decades, scientists have gleaned details of the “green Sahara.” Now, with the help of ancient DNA from mummified remains, geneticists are figuring out who once lived there.

As someone who’s spent years researching the economy of Ancient Rome, it all feels a shade familiar. In fact, tariffs were also used in Ancient Rome, and for some of the reasons that governments ...

A digital map of ancient Greece and the known ancient world as traveled by ancient geographers has been created by researchers at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The map lets users ...