The earthly remains of most of history’s 266 popes (plus some European royals) are buried in Rome—in dozens of catacombs and ...

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

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HarperCollins, $30 (320p) ISBN 978-0-00-870042-3 More than any other ancient civilization ... in his English-language debut, argues that Rome is the main source of today’s political ideas ...

I'm Ben Wedeman, CNN, reporting from Rome. Pope Francis met privately with ... going back to the ancient Romans. “Our younger generations can see in the news every day on their smartphones ...

Roof collapse at Dominican Republic club kills over 100 as officials scramble to identify victims Newly hired football coach Bobby Rome II poses ... The lake, ancient and alluring, is the latest ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered the remains of a remarkably well-preserved dog from ancient Rome – and the discovery highlights the prevalence of ritual sacrifice in antiquity. The excavation ...

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 ...

To see how your meal plans might be affected, check out this interactive map showing the origins of crops around the world. This tool was originally published by the International Center for ...

Periplus Atlas – A detailed interactive map of the ancient world. Periplus Logos – Ancient texts with hyperlinked geographic references. Periplus App – A tool for automatically tagging geographic ...

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 ...