Excavation Division of the Hama Antiquities Department at the General Directorate of Antiquities and Museums discovered an ancient mosaic panel in Homs south of Masyaf city , back to the Roman era.

Excavations in Pompeii revealed that four people, including a child, tried to seek shelter from the eruption of Mount ...

Groundbreaking research by University of Utah anthropologists shows how ancient people processed certain plants on stone tools in the Northern Great Basin.

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A stunning Greco-Roman mosaic featuring the Greek inscription "ΤΥΡΦΗ" (tyrphe), meaning comfort and luxury, was unearthed ...

A monumental Roman complex has been revealed in Athens, and the city is gaining another open-air archaeological site in its ...

Tourism is surging in many places around the world—swarmed national parks, throngs of visitors amassing in churches and ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD buried Pompeii and Herculaneum, preserving Roman life in ash. Recent discoveries, ...

There’s nothing new about our modern obsession with playing and watching sports – they were popular in ancient Greek and ...

Gladiators battled lions and other wild animals in the arenas of the Roman Empire. But for all the tales of combat depicted in ancient texts, marble reliefs and mosaics, and then retold in movies and ...

A group of students recently recreated a rice dish using an ancient recipe – and the results were unusual. The challenge was undertaken by researchers at the Yuelu Academy of Hunan University in ...

The ancient ... mosaics of Zeugma, which were recovered in excellent condition, belong to the 2nd century BC preceding the Romans. Dionysos and Vacchi. Credit:Dosseman/Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 ...