Objects discovered during the excavation include oil lamps decorated with the menorah (seven-branched lampstand) and the ...

Rome and Ostia to this day are pockmarked with remnants of Jewish heritage: a menorah on the bas-relief of the first-century ...

As they worked, the team uncovered a smaller rectangular room with a wide set of steps leading down to a well. Archaeologists identified it as an ancient Jewish ritual bath, known as a mikveh, dating ...

These visionaries transformed mime into the art form we recognize today, focusing on the power of body movement and facial ...

Before vision boards and TikTok affirmations, ancient cultures also believed that the power of thought could reshape their ...

The second was a more sweeping memo that recognizes only two sexes in federal records and policies. In the ancient Roman world, which I study, biological sex and gender expression did not always line ...

The origin of the Huns in fourth-century Europe has long been debated, but centuries-old DNA has revealed their diverse backgrounds.

Mime theatre, one of the oldest forms of performance art, has evolved significantly over centuries, adapting to cultural shifts while retaining its essence of storytelling through movement, expression ...

Now a popular tourist destination along the Adriatic coast, Rimini—or Ariminum in ancient times—had been a major Roman town for centuries, and the modern city is strewn with monuments from ...

The yellowed and sometimes barely legible pages of 16 th-century texts speak of disaster after disaster—from the Black Death to locust invasions to a period of intense climate change that ...

Senior Lecturer in Roman History & Material Culture, University of Lincoln Archaeologists from the Museum of London have discovered a well-preserved part of the ancient city of London’s first ...