In Croatia, archaeologists have discovered a mass grave dating back to the third century CE that indicates another key to ...

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

Archaeologists recently uncovered a 1,500-year-old synagogue in Israel's Golan Heights, revealing new evidence of ancient ...

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To explore the site, the researchers drafted a multidisciplinary team of scientists from the fields of botany, architecture, ...

Recovering these stories is not invention but restoration. Queerness in Palestine is native to the land, older than empire or dogma. When someone claims queerness is “un-Palestinian,” remember the ...

A New Orleans couple unearthed a 2,000-year-old Roman marble tablet in their garden, leading the FBI and history experts to ...

A family cleaning their backyard in New Orleans discovered an unusual marble tablet with some characters in Latin. Daniella ...

Nobody knew how a nearly 2,000-year-old grave marker landed in a backyard for decades — until this week. By Aimee Ortiz Daniella Santoro and her husband, Aaron Lorenz, were busy “de-junglefying” the ...

Caraway Alexander looks to the past when considering the future of food. Two thousand years in the past, to be more precise. Alexander’s semiregular pop-up concept Salona basks in the limitations ...

From a mosaic of flip-flops in Sicily to Cicero’s possible sauna, new discoveries prove that bathing has always been about more than getting clean. Ancient Roman flip-flop mosaic from the Villa Romana ...

President Trump's celebration of Jimmy Kimmel's (now brief) and Stephen Colbert's (still happening) removal from the air — along with his calls for canceling other late-night comedians — may feel very ...