Marble head found in the ancient Greek city of Chersonesos identified as Laodice, revealing ties between Greek heritage and Roman rule.

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Archaeologists in Albania have discovered a large Roman burial chamber dating from the third to fourth century AD, the first ...

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Archaeologists say they have discovered the ruins of what they believe are the boundaries of an ancient temple belonging to the mysterious Andean society of Tiwanaku that disappeared around AD 1000.

On and off, I have spent decades studying Greek history. I am not so sure, however, that I fully understand what made the ancient Greeks so original and, at times, so self-destructive. Greatness, ...

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Hannibal Crossing the Alps by Jacopo Ripanda, c. 1510 - Getty Napoleon is relatively unusual in western history for aligning himself with the brutal Hannibal – not Hannibal’s Roman enemy, Scipio ...