Few figures in history have been as polarizing as Nero, the infamous Roman emperor who had a love affair with everything ...

Ancient Societies In Mexico And South Asia Were Democratic Long Before Europe Claimed To Invent It In A Nutshell A major new ...

A new study has challenged the long-held belief that democratic governance was exclusively born in the classical Mediterranean world of Greece and Rome. By analyzing archaeological and historical ...

If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be like? You don’t just have to imagine it. The ancient Roman writer Aulus Gellius, who lived in the 2nd century CE, gives us a ...

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses. Reading time 3 minutes Statues in ancient Greece and Rome looked ...

Greek archaeologists recently uncovered a trove of ancient artifacts while exploring the lost city of Tenea, which legend suggests was built some 3,000 years ago by Trojan prisoners of war. More than ...

The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics, and especially geometry, and science.

Is it any wonder ancient people thought lightning came from the gods? Even today, a close lightning strike feels like a ...

Dementia seems like a disorder that's always haunted the human race. But this form of severe memory loss is actually a modern malady, if classical Greek and Roman physicians are to be believed. A new ...

It doesn't look like much from the outside, but the inside of the Australian National University Classics Museum is akin to peering into the cupboards of a kitchen from 2,000 years ago. The collection ...