George Maniakes was a tremendously talented general with a famously bad temper who challenged the Byzantine emperor for the ...

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) is home to one of the world’s most spectacular collections of art, sculpture, ...

It was created in the 7th century BC - It was found in the mud in 1914, then disappeared, ending up in the Metropolitan ...

The Roman historian Plutarch tells us that ... is the most complete and best-preserved panoply from ancient Greece. The body armor would have been carefully fitted to his frame.

China war inevitable? Perhaps that isn’t the lesson leaders should be taking from the ‘History of the Peloponnesian War.’ ...

Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the "Barbarian Conspiracy," a pivotal moment in the history of Roman ...

Archaeologists launch a project to analyze 4,000 Roman bricks from Trier, Germany, revealing insights into ancient building ...

Although the team obviously can’t tie zircon minerals to the Roman Empire’s collapse, their lengthy migration inside frozen ...

Carbon-14 analysis helped date the bones to between 80 and 130 A.D. That was cross-checked against known history of relics found in the grave – armor, helmet cheek protectors, the nails used in ...