From Rome’s holiest texts to a Chinese ... covering poetry, rhetoric, ancient rites, history and divination. The sixth, on music, may have disappeared in the 3rd-century-B.C. “Burning of ...

Nearly 2,000 years ago, ancient Romans enjoyed a variety of snacks when attending events at the Colosseum. Recent ...

A manuscript discovered in the Judean desert contains trial notes on an intricate tax-evasion scheme that involved forgery, ...

When Giovanni Torlonia and his son Alessandro were building the collection, it was common practice to repair ancient statuary ...

Bronze Age cymbals found in Oman reveal how music united ancient cultures across trade routes, ceremonies, and rituals.

Music is an important part of many religious ceremonies by lifting spirits and often being the prayer itself. NBC’s Anne ...

Archaeologists have made two extraordinary discoveries in the Italian town of Agrigento on Sicily's southwest coast. During ...

Formerly known as Byzantium, this ancient city was built to rival Rome. It was known for its state-of-the-art fortifications. After the Great Schism of 1054, which broke Christianity into Roman ...

The recently restored Ponte Sant'Angelo in Rome features ten angels holding symbols of Christ's Passion, creating a profound ...

The trail’s 215 miles connect ancient road networks with modern hiking paths, tracing rivers, twisting up gorges and traversing the ruins of Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine cities. Map ...

On a windswept ridge overlooking the plains of northern Oman, a pair of ancient cymbals lay buried beneath layers of plaster ...