ancient history

Ravenna is a three hour train ride from Venice but seeing the brilliant mosaics of Justinian's Basilica di San Vitale is worth it.

A decades-long debate among musicians about tuning is bound up with Nazi conspiracy theories, New Age healing methods, ...

Mummification may have been a wide-spread funerary practice among ancient Britons during the Bronze Age, a new study ...

London, Paris and New York are global cities: modern hubs for travel, technology and trade, their names and ...

Archaeologists have discovered a well-preserved Maya stela—a stone tablet—from the site of El Achiotal that dates to the ...