Throughout the centuries, powerful rulers have looked beyond the physical world for guidance and strength. Kings and emperors ...

Ghosts stories appear in several surviving texts from ancient Rome. What do they reveal about the people who told them?

Archaeologists uncover how early humans in Italy butchered elephants and forged survival from their bones 400,000 years ago.

Now at the Kimbell Art Museum, this exhibition is the first in the U.S. to display works from a vast, vital Italian ...

While the mayors of the cities did sign a peace treaty in 1985, it was a symbolic gesture. In reality, the wars between the two ancient civilizations ended more than 2,000 years prior when Rome ...

In this painting, The Banquet of Cleopatra, also by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770), Cleopatra’s pearl is in her outstretched hand as she likely tells Mark Antony in regal Roman dress how she ...

From thunder gods to serpent slayers, scholars are reconstructing myths that vanished millennia ago. How much further can we ...

The teaching of the “classics” – primarily the ancient civilisations of Greece and Rome – may be fading from universities, but interest remains high among publishers and readers. This is largely ...

The classicist on how a British Museum visit sparked her love of history and why we shouldn’t be too reverent about ancient ...

A young woman buried in China’s Tarim Basin some 2,000 years ago went to the afterlife accompanied by the height of fashion. The woman, who was wrapped in a felt blanket and buried in a coffin ...

What is Ancient History?Walter Scheidel, Princeton UP, £25IT is not often that you read an academic text that is effectively an exercise in demolition directed towards another academic discipline, but ...

The Mexican government has formally asked Pope Francis for the temporary return of several ancient indigenous manuscripts held in the Vatican library ahead of next year's 500-year anniversary of the ...