It is believed the frescoes once decorated at least 20 internal walls of a high-status Roman building between AD 40 and 150.

A “jigsaw” of 2,000 year old fragments have been pieced together by archaeologists to reveal a remarkable Roman wall painting ...

While family is at the core of this latest record, it's not the first time frontman Paul Janeway has looked to his family ...

Scientists have uncovered a giant, ancient salamander fossil in Tennessee.

The dish known as salad is said to date back to the ancient Roman habit of dipping romaine lettuce in salt — “herbe salata” means “salted leaves.” Now, centuries after the concept originated in ...

According to Greek legend, a prince named Memnon led an army from ancient Iran to Troy and fought in the Trojan War.

The rocky hills of Ithaca, home to olive groves and old Greek legends, have now yielded their most evocative secret: the ...

Explore how Nazi ideology appropriated ancient Greece and Plato's philosophy, distorting them to fit their racial and ...

Embraced by the world’s best memory athletes, the “method of loci” can also help the rest of us strengthen our recall, heal ...

Perhaps the most well-known of the lost Greek letters is Digamma. Shaped like an F or a modern-day gamma with an extra stem, Digamma represented the “w” sound. Its use was widespread in early dialects ...

Country names often fade into the background of a map and eventually become fixed and obvious. But the truth is, they’re anything but. These names are often rooted in ancient riddles, happy accidents, ...

By comparing the 4,000-year-old language to Greek, scientists have an idea of what ancient Egyptian sounded like.