The handful animal ghosts in the ancient world are often depicted not as friendly visitors but as mere tools for humans – and ...

The Etruscans and Romans were fierce rivals and clashed in pivotal wars. What were the major battles that defined this ...

From 27 B.C.E. to 180 C.E., the Roman Empire saw a period of relative tranquility and prosperity now known as the Pax Romana ...

Prologue An Orphic hymn says that Kypris, Aphrodite of Cyprus, was the “scheming mother of necessity.” She controlled and ...

Pope Francis was hospitalized on Feb. 14, after suffering a bout of bronchitis for weeks and after increasingly finding it ...

and plagues. But despite these challenges, Interamna Lirenas managed to thrive well into the third century, 300 years longer than experts previously thought. At its peak, it was home to some 2,000 ...

Scientists gather for a new series attempting to explain the dis-appearance of ancient civilisations. This first investigates the abrupt end of the Old Kingdom of Egypt, 4,200 years ago.

The new study reports a never-before-seen lead spike in marine sediments about 2,150 years ago, during a time when Rome was ... and plagues. But these and other records of ancient lead pollution ...

This lineage, known as the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age (LNBA) plague, repeatedly spread throughout Eurasia and caused deadly outbreaks for millennia until its extinction. By analyzing DNA of ...

BARTHOLOMEW — Louis F. Bartholomew, 96, of Rome, on Feb. 23, 2025. Visitation 10-11 a.m., Friday, at St. John The Baptist Church, Rome. Mass of Christian Burial 11 ...

An ancient ancestor of the pathogen that would later cause the Black Death and other major pandemics has been identified in a Bronze Age domestic sheep in Russia – making it one of the oldest ...