As the official story of Cleopatra's death goes, the Egyptian queen locked herself in a mausoleum in Alexandria on an August day in 30 B.C.E. and sent for a venomous snake. After she received an asp, ...

The mysterious tomb of Alexander the Great may not have been found yet, but do we at least know what it looked like?

Forget Julius Caesar and Leonardo da Vinci. Italy has a new national treasure: a cat named Augustus who lives at the ...

Rise and Fall, brings four ancient civilisations back to life… In an age troubled by pandemics, autocracy and rapid change, a ...

Featured artefacts from The British Museum’s world-famous collection include the double-headed serpent of the Aztecs, the ...

In a 1993 episode of The Simpsons, Lisa is in class, daydreaming of a headset that can take her back in time to witness the ...

Braga, often referred to as the Rome of Portugal, is a city that's steeped in history and has been named Europe's leading ...

Researchers from the University of Tokyo have unearthed what may be an ancient villa they believe belonged to the first Roman ...

The French names are indicative of this small region’s first settlers, Celts and Ligures, who were later overwhelmed by the Roman Emperor Augustus. The Emperor gave the region its name (Valle d’Aosta ...

The French names are indicative of this small region’s first settlers, Celts and Ligures, who were later overwhelmed by the Roman Emperor Augustus. The Emperor gave the region its name (Valle d’Aosta ...

Long-Section view of Duquesne West looking North and showing the two gold trends. A high-grade westerly trend and a main easterly trending gold trend. – Emperor Metals GNW ...