Created more than a century before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., the wall paintings provide rare insights into ...

An extremely rare cycle of paintings depicting a raucous ritual involving the god of wine has been unearthed in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by volcanic ash and lava in A.D. 70, officials ...

An extremely rare cycle of paintings depicting a raucous ritual involving the god of wine has been unearthed in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by volcanic ash and lava in A.D. 70, officials ...

Cito tuto jucunde, a phrase that can be translated as “Quickly, safely, and pleasantly,” was the motto of one of the fathers ...

Research on the vanishing coastlines of Alexandria, Egypt, offers nature-based solutions for protecting coastal cities globally, including those in California.

Egypt's antiquities authority says it has found the ancient tomb of King Thutmose II, the first royal burial to be located ...

A new USC study reveals a dramatic surge in building collapses in the ancient Egyptian port city of Alexandria, directly ...

USC research on the vanishing coastlines of Alexandria, Egypt, offers nature-based solutions for protecting coastal cities ...

Wake up your senses from winter’s hibernation. Defy the onset of sadness and depression. “Get thee to a” library. Don’t wait for the flowers to bloom. The trees will be green again. The birds will ...

Two lost books by Apollonius, the ancient Greek mathematician known as “The Great Geometer,” have survived in an Arabic ...

Both works were composed in the late eighth or early seventh century BC. They... The ancient Library of Alexandria, built in the city that was the brainchild of Alexander the Great, was one of the ...

Between parked cars in a suburban street in Athens, workers fix a pump to an ancient stone well that in turn accesses an aqueduct built almost 2,000 years ago. The Greek capital, one of Europe's ...