The underground cemeteries, nearly 2,000 years old, hold some of the earliest evidence of Christian faith, belief in the ...

A cache of Triassic fossils in Arizona has revealed Eotephradactylus mcintireae, or "ash-winged dawn goddess," the oldest ...

French company Seaturns has raised USD 2.9 million to scale up its wave power solution and accelerate commercial rollout.

In 1849 archaeologists found 14 clay tablets with cuneiform writing during excavations in Iraq, the translation of these ...

Jefferson and Adams ensured that the Declaration captured the hearts of Americans with different religious sensibilities.

It began when Maria Peters, a lifelong resident of Palos Verdes Estates, paused during a workday stroll through Malaga Cove ...

If you're visiting southern Italy and planning a trip to Pompeii, there’s another ancient city you absolutely shouldn’ ...

Haut-relief sculptures on the sarcophagus show a wine-drinking contest between Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, and the legendary Roman hero, Hercules.

Neptune (Roman god of the sea, identified with the Greek Poseidon) is still resentful of the wandering Trojans. He is not as vindictive as Juno, and in Book I, he rescues the Trojan fleet from the ...

John the Apostle on Patmos; 17th-century painting by Jacopo Vignali. Public Domain John had been exiled to Patmos by the Roman Emperor Domitian. The island was used as a place of exile by the Romans ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a 1,700-year-old marble sarcophagus depicting Greek gods Hercules and Dionysus in a drinking contest. The rare artefact, dated to the second or third century AD, was ...