a great library in the center of Rome, was founded by Emperor Trajan, who ruled around the turn of the second century C.E. Referenced often by ancient authors, it could have been the first such ...

Over the weekend, three Italian researchers looking in to the Giza necropolis - Professor Corrado Malanga and Filippo Biondi ...

RESEARCHERS who claim to have discovered a “lost city” deep below the pyramids now believe it could be the site of the ...

Somewhere, in the dusty bowels of a congressional library, some poor hapless presidential assistant is strip-mining ancient ...

In medieval novels, Merlin the Magician was far stranger than he appears in modern pop culture. Archivists have discovered ...

April Fools' origins may go back all the way to ancient civilization, but the exact start of the prank-filled holiday remains ...

After telling the dog to “cut out the malarky,” a word from my ancient past seldom encountered since the passing of my father ...

Wondering why April 1 is all about jokes and hoaxes? Here’s a deep dive into the strange history and uncertain origins of ...

Savvas Eleftherlades took a trip aboard the Oceania Cruises Riviera ship, setting sail from Athens and took in the Greek ...

The Jefferson-Madison Regional Library's Library of Things offers visitors a variety of starter kits: for bread-making, ...

A heated debate has erupted among Egyptologists after researchers claimed to have found an “underground city” beneath the Pyramids of Giza. Is the discovery, based on radar images, groundbreaking or ...