The ancient Greek city-state of Syracuse on the eastern coast of Sicily started as a colony and became a Greek metropolis.

Laura Coffey went on a quest to find the real-life islands that inspired the wanderings of Homer’s epic hero, Odysseus ...

However, we can say the island really got on the map when it was settled in the mid-7th ... two civilisations dominated trade in the Mediterranean, Greece and Carthage (whose legendary capital was ...

Ancient military fortifications dating back to the Ptolemaic and Roman eras of Egyptian history were recently uncovered by ...

An excavation at the Tell Abu Sefeh site in Egypt revealed sophisticated military fortifications from the Ptolemaic and Roman ...

Roman society was, in many ways, surprisingly sophisticated. It built remarkable things like aqueducts that snaked over long ...

The Banquet of Cleopatra' by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770). Ancient ideas about diet were grounded in archaic theories about how the body worked. Most Greek and Roman doctors believed that ...

The record sheds light on the climate early humans experienced when they were spreading out of Africa. A tree-ringed African lake has yielded a record of Earth's magnetic field spanning the past ...

Is the Roman Empire on your mind? If so, France should be on your list of must-visit destinations! Having been inhabited by ...