Airborne particles from minting coins damaged health, a new study says, and might have contributed to the Roman Empire’s ...

Landmarks including the ancient city of Palmyra and the medieval Crusader castle of Crac des Chevaliers remain scarred by ...

Although many researchers assume that birthday celebrations date back to the ancient Egyptians, the earliest textual evidence of a birthday party proves these annual events are much older.

Archaeologists exploring the site of a planned 32-story office tower announced that they have unearthed the remains of a ...

According to one legend, Pope Gelasius wanted to put an end to the debauchery in the late fifth century. He declared Feb. 14 ...

The papyrus details the prosecution of two main defendants: Gadalias, a notary’s son and something of an ancient Roman “bad ...

If not for the work of two scholars, Alice Kober and Michael Ventris, the ancient Greek script Linear B would likely still be ...

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

They didn’t provide translations, but one photo shows the faded and easily overlooked writing. Based on these finds, the team identified the chamber as the site of an ancient Roman sanctuary ...

In the best restaurants along the Bosphorus strait Roman Abramovich’s high dining ... “The individual has confirmed in writing that this information is false and that he in fact has never ...

Roman Abramovich paid chef Omer Ataysin (left) a substantial bonus to prepare a luxury barbecue for the Russian and his friends - Omer Ataysin ...

Former Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich has been accused of dodging millions in tax payments as part of a scheme around his fleet of superyachts. Abramovich, who was sanctioned by the UK in March ...