Each elector swears an oath to protect the church’s freedom and the secrecy of the conclave. As the last oath is complete, ...

We woke reasonably late following the feast and free flowing wine the night before. After gathering ourselves and our packs, ...

Rome was famous for rejecting the idea of kingship. For almost 500 years, Rome was a staunch Republic, with rules in place to ...

The news that Dragoslav Bokan is set to give a lecture at the Serbian House in Podgorica on the broad, rhetorical theme “Will the Serbian People Survive?” ...

While it is common to see cats in modern households, cats are among the most recently domesticated animals. Archaeological ...

Archaeologists launch a project to analyze 4,000 Roman bricks from Trier, Germany, revealing insights into ancient building ...

Walnuts, whose shells were frequently found in excavated layers, were among the most accessible nuts in ancient Rome. Romans valued them for their high fat content and long shelf life. Walnut ...

A new DFG project has been launched to study brick stamps in Roman Trier. Trier reached its peak in the 4th century AD, when ...

BEAUTY IN BLOOM – First lady Melania Trump invited visitors from far and wide to the White House for the annual ... preserved remains of a dog from ancient Rome, shedding light on the widespread ...

We're living in a period where the gap between rich and poor is dramatic, and it's continuing to widen. But inequality is nothing new. In a new study researchers compared house size distributions from ...

Ongoing digs at a Roman villa in the town of Villajoyosa in Spain, have revealed more than 4,000 fragments of wall paintings.

Italian archaeologists recently unearthed ancient Roman tombs during the excavation of a necropolis – including one bearing the epitaph of a gladiator. The discovery was announced by the ...