2,000-year-old artifact may be evidence that Romans found New World — a thousand years before Columbus

The discovery of a 2,000-year-old Roman artifact in Mexico could upend our understanding of the New World, raising the possibility that Italians arrived in the Americas long before Christopher ...

A hidden cloister in the center of Rome has a turbulent past etched on its walls

A quiet cloister behind a wooden door near Rome’s Pantheon offers calm meditation, while its frescoes reveal a turbulent past ...
Greek Reporter

Kylix: The Ancient Greek Drinking Cup That Separated Peasants from Aristocrats

The kylix drinking cup in ancient Greek symposiums revealed who was an aristocrat and who didn’t belong to the elite circle.

Where did the ancient Greeks and Romans think lightning came from? Hint: not just the gods

In the mythology of ancient Greece and Rome, thunder and lightning strikes were the prime weapon of Zeus (the king of the gods, known to the Romans as Jupiter). Reminders of his power and wrath via ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Brilliant Blue Paint Covering This Lavish Room in Ancient Pompeii May Have Cost More Than Half the Annual Salary of a Roman Foot Soldier

Researchers have estimated how much the home's owners may have paid to paint the small sacrarium, calculating the price of the Egyptian blue pigment and the hours of labor required to prepare it ...

Rome’s Colosseum gets a fresh look that recreates the footprints of long-gone columns

The Colosseum has a bright new look following a restoration using the same travertine marble of ancient Rome to recreate ...
Greek Reporter

How an Ancient Greek Eunuch Rose to Power after Alexander the Great

After the death of Alexander the Great, a eunuch named Philetaerus established the ancient Greek city of Pergamon a major center of power.