Although the Greeks and Romans linked environmental harm with climate change to a more limited extent than we do today, they ...

A worker who had been trapped for 11 hours in the partial collapse of a medieval tower in the heart of Rome has died after ...

Shunning, rather than debate, is the best response to antisemites, and how social media has given new life to this ancient ...

The very first Halloween celebrations trace back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, which later morphed into All ...

An ancient Celtic Festival, the Catholic Church, the Irish Potato Famine, and community leaders turned Halloween into the ...

Teachers at nine high schools in northeastern Australia discovered days before an ancient history exam that they had ...

Excavations in the ancient Roman city Gabii have uncovered a water basin that could predate much of Roman monumental architecture. Experts believe the water basin could sit alongside another ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The Staten Island Herb Society will delve into the dark side of botanical history when it presents Ancient Poisons at its Oct. 27 meeting at the Biddle House in Tottenville.

Archaeologists excavating an ancient well in eastern Croatia have discovered the skeletons of seven men whose bodies had been tossed in haphazardly. Experts think the remains belong to Roman soldiers ...

NEW ORLEANS — A New Orleans family cleaning up their overgrown backyard made an extremely unusual find: Under the weeds was a mysterious marble tablet with Latin characters that included the phrase ...

A New Orleans family cleaning up their overgrown backyard made an extremely unusual find: Under the weeds was a mysterious marble tablet with Latin characters that included the phrase “spirits of the ...