Both Rossellini and Pasolini made documentary films on India, reflecting their appreciation of a land of ancient achievements and many contradictions, but in markedly different styles ...

Elon Musk funds AI-powered archaeology in Rome, pledging $1M to help researchers digitally rebuild ancient sites and rewrite ...

The Italian art police still don’t know who took the brilliantly illuminated manuscript page from a Franciscan friary, and ...

ROME (AP) — The man who just took charge of Rome’s top tourist attraction wants to set the record straight: the Colosseum won ...

One of the things I never wrapped my head around was how the Roman Republic managed to conquer the mighty city-states and ...

The final decades of the second century BC, and the first decades of the first century BC, were an incredibly tumultuous time ...

An excavation in Turkey has yielded not just artifacts — it's yielded millennia-old recipes that are bringing the flavors of Ancient Rome back to life. Archaeologists in Turkey recently completed digs ...

A telltale hint was on the bee’s knees. An analysis of 127 fossil flowers, flower buds and bees from central Germany revealed pollen particles that precisely matched ancient flowers to their ...

Ancient bones, artifacts and texts offer numerous insights into the past, as does the chewing gum that Neolithic people chewed on and spat out long ago. Analysis of lumps of birch bark tar from ...

Taylor Swift dropped a big announcement Monday morning on Good Morning America, continuing the long run of news in the wake of her 12th studio album, The Life Of A Showgirl, releasing on October 3.

George Orwell's writings warning of the dangers of totalitarian and authoritarian states gave the English language the term "Orwellian." A new documentary called "Orwell: 2+2=5” argues that Orwell's ...

Birding is having something of a pop-culture moment. Uzo Aduba’s “world’s greatest detective,” from this summer’s Netflix hit The Residence, was a birder, as is Mark Ruffalo’s FBI agent character in ...