The Punic people had almost no genetic ties to Phoenicians, even though the latter founded the great city of Carthage.

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EXCLUSIVE: Athos Salomé, who is known as the 'Living Nostradamus', has released a series of bombshell predictions about the ...

Today, AD joins architect Nick Potts in London to uncover the city’s ancient Roman origins. Before London, there was Londinium, the capital of Roman Britain, and although it was abandoned by AD 450, ...

The iconic Bay of Naples island of Capri is on display in a new, monumental exhibition that the Met in New York, in ...

Pope Francis, a reformer who rattled the Catholic Church's conservatives and inspired some progressives, has died.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear ...

Rome is creating a new 50-km ring road for cyclists and walkers as part of an ambitious project known as Grande Raccordo ...

While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...