The Alexander Mosaic, which was excavated in the House of the Faun in Pompeii, Italy, depicts the Battle of Issos, which pitted Alexander the Great (above, seated on brown horse) against the Persian ...

In different passage, Aulus tells us about some bookstalls he came across when he arrived by ship at the port of Brundisium ...

Archaeologists spend careers mapping the expected, yet some of the most revealing discoveries arrive where no one thought to ...

The room we are in is locked. It is windowless and lit from above by a fluorescent bulb. In the hallway outside—two stories beneath the city of London—attendants in dark suits patrol silently, giving ...

Archaeologists have long treated Rome’s roads as a marvel of ancient engineering, but new digital mapping shows the network ...