When Mount Vesuvius began to erupt on the morning of August 24, AD 79, most of Pompeii's residents were entirely unprepared. But a harrowing new discovery reveals one family's desperate fight ...

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Though Miranda and historian Ron Chernow, author of the biography “Alexander Hamilton,” his acknowledged source for the ...

A writing contest led Mr. Lovesey to create a Victorian-age crime thriller, beginning a career that spanned more than 40 ...

However, not many people are familiar with the fact that the core elements of Roman law can be directly traced back to the ancient Greek world ... t believe these were predetermined by origin or class ...

Archaeologists excavating an ancient Roman settlement in the United Kingdom found an oven used for making construction materials, photos show. Photo from Cotswold Archaeology Sifting through the ...

a powerful Phoenician colony in modern-day Tunisia and one of ancient Rome’s most formidable enemies. Carthaginians were known as “Punic people” to the Romans, and the two civilizations ...

The bizarre episode no doubt puzzled his soldiers as much as it does modern historians. Excerpted with permission from The Shortest History of Ancient Rome, Ross King, Pan Macmillan.

When retirement planning, you should focus on accumulating wealth over the years and imitating financially savvy upper-middle-class individuals who build their nest eggs comfortably. Here are four ...

The nearly 2,000-year-old example of Roman engineering is covered in penile carvings, thanks to the ancient citizens and soldiers leaving their marks, the Vindolanda Charitable Trust said.

For park director Gabriel Zuchtriegel, it's all about bringing together the history of Pompeii with its intertwined history of ancient Roman winemaking. “The vineyards were enhanced with the aim of ...