The Roman engineer Nonius Datus thought the project was in good shape when he left Saldae. He would return.

Archaeologists have found that snack bars called tabernae fed much of the city in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius.

Nothing appealed more perfectly to the Romantic sensibility than the mix of horror and awe evoked by a volcano erupting.

Sewing a full winter outfit from animal hides took 105 hours. And we needed lots of them to survive the Younger Dryas Cold Event.

The terrifying and gruesome rituals of the Flayed God had a symbolic subtext that was somewhat gentler than one might imagine.

It's taken scientists a long time to figure out what amber is made of, and what we can learn from it.

At various sites throughout Peru and Argentina, archaeologists have found remains of child sacrifices.

Stories emerged in the centuries after Alexander the Great’s death. They revolved around Alexander's failures, not his victories. The portrait that emerges is strangely poignant.

The Babylonians knew their mathematics thousands of years before the Europeans.

In 1993, divers discovered a shipwreck from the Hellenistic period off the coast of Turkey. It held marble columns from the Temple of Apollo.