The very first Halloween celebrations trace back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, which later morphed into All ...

Archaeologists in France have uncovered a 1,700-year-old ancient Roman funerary area, including burials with libation conduits hilariously akin to today’s watering spikes.

Ancient Greek thinkers, from Hesiod to Plato, and later Rousseau saw in the noble savage a vision of lost divine harmony and ...

Ghosts stories appear in several surviving texts from ancient Rome. What do they reveal about the people who told them?

The carriage workshop, which also had evidence of fixing horseshoes, was situated along the well-traveled Via Claudia Augusta and offered services to travelers in the first century C.E.

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These saints from centuries ago still speak urgently with timeless messages on community, knowledge, creativity, ...

From prehistoric burials to overcrowded Victorian churchyards, this is what our treatment of the dead throughout history says about the living ...

For the Ancient Greeks, virtue was the most important quality a person could have, and being virtuous was the absolute goal ...

The ghost stories of the ancient world reveal much about humanity’s early attempts to understand death and the afterlife. Whether it was a story to serve a moral lesson, a religious reminder, or ...

He found the 2,000-year-old coins in 2017 but only in 2025 turned the discovery over to the proper authorities ...