Roman ships equipped with bronze rams sank dozens of Carthaginian ships during a major naval battle in 241 BCE – now we know ...

A thousand-year-old prophecy has resurfaced following the death of Pope Francis, predicting the next Pope. Pope Francis died ...

The history of Insurance goes back to ancient Greece as people employed insurance-like practices, predominantly within ...

The Italian luxury house led by Silvia Venturini Fendi is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. With a history shaped by the central role of women and a long-standing collaboration with Karl ...

A new exhibition at the London Museum Docklands spotlights hundreds of mudlarking finds, from Bronze Age tools to Viking ...

Marine archaeologists continue to salvage ships laden with cargos of garum ... In what is now Barcelona, this ancient Roman factory turned out garum as well as salted fish in the third century ...

His greatest invention is the one that rescued Syracuse, the ancient Greek colony in Sicily, from the Roman siege. His greatest invention was a “death ray”—the first the world had ever seen—that he ...