Hannibal of Carthage (modern Tunisia), a great military strategist, led elephants through the Alps to defeat Rome.

For Janeites around the globe, the 250th anniversary of the English author’s birth is cause for elaborate celebrations.

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The Tudor-era ship had evaded search parties for centuries, and would probably have continued to do so were it not for the ...

Sixty-two years after President John F. Kennedy's assassination, I find myself drawn to the eddies of memory, those "spots of time" that refuse to fade and insist on revealing anew how private lives ...

Here, luxury brands like Michael Kors, Coach, and Kate Spade share real estate with more accessible names like Gap, Old Navy, and H&M, creating a retail melting pot where $400 handbags (marked down to ...

The 1985 discovery of the RMS Titanic changed the field of maritime archaeology forever, proving that even deeply sunken ...

New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world.

During the age of emperors, Roman sculpture was of artistic, religious, and political importance, and often took on epic ...

A newly discovered monumental basin in Gabii hints at how early Romans experimented with city planning long before Rome’s own layers were buried. In the center of the ancient city of Gabii, just 11 ...

One of the ancient submerged cities in the Mediterranean is found in Greece. Stories of submerged cities are as fascinating ...

A discovery in Sardinia reveals up to 50,000 intact Roman coins, prompting research into trade, shipwrecks, and Mediterranean ...