The Roman empire banned pants because they were seen to be a symbol of barbarism with many conquered tribes having worn them. Credit: failing_angel. CC BY 2.0/flickr Togas and tunics were the fashion ...

Ancient Olympia is the birthplace of the Olympics and its sanctuaries and temples are some of the oldest and most important in all of Ancient Greece. Forming the backdrop to so much of Greek history, ...

The longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judean Desert, which sheds new light on a legal drama that unfolded in Israel nearly 2,000 years ago, has now been published for the first time. Over the ...

An ancient Roman statue of the Greek goddess Athena, hidden from public view for nearly 300 years ... The Halsted Athena, as the work is now known, depicts the goddess in a flowing tunic with an aegis ...

The findings suggest that lead pollution due to human activities began approximately 1,200 years earlier than previously thought, and that the expansion of the Roman Empire across the Aegean ...

In other words, ancient Roman customers wanted sculptures that reflected the look of ancient Greek and Hellenistic Greek,” Manchester adds. Even in the first century C.E., when the statue took ...

Ancient history is the study of the Greek and Roman worlds over a period spanning from 2000 BC to around 600 AD and covers parts of Africa, Asia and Europe. You will learn about these ancient cultures ...

Cultures throughout history have put lead to use for wacky and often deeply poisonous purposes Sonja Anderson A new, first-of-its-kind analysis of the scents of nine mummies detected woody, spicy ...

The ancient Romans were masters of building and engineering, perhaps most famously represented by the aqueducts. And those still functional marvels rely on a unique construction material: pozzolanic ...

We'll support you to develop skills that span the humanities and sciences. Your learning can include: the investigation of artefacts, monuments and museum collections the development of empires in ...