The world’s first telegraph message relayed the biblical phrase “What hath God wrought?” and was brought about by Samuel Morse in 1844. This historic moment may not be the right one to be recognized, ...

More than 160 cremation graves were discovered at the ancient site of Olbia, which began as a fortified Greek settlement around 350 B.C. in what is now the south of France. The ge ...

For the first time since the boy king's tomb was discovered in 1922 all the items will stored in one place, a museum director ...

There's a museum called Narona near Metković in southern Dalmatia, and it pays homage to the formerly magnificent Roman settlement.

In an extravaganza of pharaonic imagery with a drone light show depicting ancient gods and pyramids in the sky, Egypt on ...

Hygieia was a prominent figure in both ancient Greek and Roman mythology—she was the daughter of Asclepius, the god of ...

Egypt held the official inauguration of the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) near the Pyramids on Saturday, in a lavish ceremony with dancers and stars wearing colourful and golden pharaonic ...

There is a story about the Vestal Virgins that illuminates the religion of ancient Rome. It comes from 390 BC, when things ...

Halloween famously comes from the Celtic festival of Samhain, but does Samhain itself come from an Ancient Greek festival?

Archaeologists in France have unearthed 170 Roman funeral pyres in the ancient Greek city of Olbia, revealing detailed ...

Pope Leo will also celebrate a Mass for the soul of the late Pope Francis and deceased cardinals the following day.