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On a quiet summer evening in Rome, the Vatican Museums reveal a side of history often overlooked by visitors. Within the octagonal courtyard, the oldest part of the museums, countless Roman artifacts ...

A small, 2,200-year-old elephant bone discovered at an ancient, fortified settlement in southern Spain may be the first direct archaeological evidence of the war elephants used by the legendary ...

Since the earliest civilizations, humans have believed that the Earth itself carries protective power. Stones, formed deep ...

Archaeologists in Spain found a single elephant bone among Carthaginian weapons, offering rare physical evidence linked to ...

Historical accounts of the Punic Wars—and many other ancient wars—often paint a picture of soldiers riding in on imposing ...

The Mediterranean Sea used to be filled with pirates who terrorized not only Ancient Greece but Rome as well. Long before the ...

When Union forces retreated, soldiers and civilians fled together in panic, clogging roads and worsening the rout. The event ...

This year's Super Bowl weekend has Sam Raimi island thriller Send Help and Markiplier's Iron Lung fighting over first place (again).

Roman Philosophy Machiavelli’s Roman Empire Sam Spound explains why the author of The Prince thought about Rome so much. In ...

The U.K. is home to some incredibly old roadways — and a number of them can still be traversed today.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art took an emphatic tone in titling “Revolution!,” an exhibit commemorating a 250th anniversary that I probably need not spell out, and the result is emphatically good. The ...