Researchers in Bulgaria think the artifact could offer a window into ancient tensions around the rise of Christianity. By Amelia Nierenberg Reporting from London Archaeologists in Bulgaria made an ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Leslie Katz covers the intersection of culture, science and tech. Archaeologists excavating an ancient Roman sewer last week made ...

Authorities in Greece are investigating after a 2,000-year-old marble statue was discovered wrapped in a trash bag and discarded among garbage bins this week. Police in Thessaloniki, the ...

A rare marble statue from the Roman period has been unearthed in an ancient city that was devastated by earthquakes around 1,600 years ago. The "exceptionally preserved" statue was found in the sewage ...

Archaeologists found an ancient bust of the Greek god Zeus in western Turkey. Located right near the remains of a temple dedicated to Aphrodite, the statue is a remnant of one of the Roman Empire’s ...

For a city in the hinterlands of the Roman Empire, attaining eleutheria was highly coveted. The word means liberty in Greek and granted a city the right to run its own administrative and legal affairs ...

A marble statue of a woman believed to be more than 2,000 years old was found abandoned in a garbage bag near the Greek city of Thessaloniki, police said Wednesday. A resident discovered the ...

Not where you’d expect to find it. At one point, the Roman Empire reached from one end of the European continent to the other. Roman cultural heritage similarly spread across the territory, sometimes ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- Two thousand years ago in Rome an artist sculpted a marble statue of a general's head. The bust ended up in a Bavarian King's museum in Germany centuries later before disappearing ...