A Roman centurion in sneakers and sunglasses? That is the kind of playful distortion AI image generators sometimes produce when depicting the past. To address this, scholars in classical studies have ...

It’s just before 7 a.m. on a sunny Saturday morning in September, and my guide, Isa Calidonna of ArcheoRunning, is leading me ...

During her hunt for the Egyptian queen’s lost tomb, National Geographic Explorer Kathleen Martínez uncovered the sunken ...

We first went to Rome back in 2018 when we’d just set off to travel the world, but we didn’t know much about photography and ...

On this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with reflections on the misuse of history in today’s politics. He argues that fascism, once thought to have been buried by the ...

A centurion wearing sneakers and shades? AI image generators sometimes take serious liberties with history. Researchers in classical studies have now developed a tool that creates images of antiquity ...

Italian archaeologists recently gained rare insight into life during Ancient Rome when they found a multi-story apartment building built decades before the birth of Jesus Christ. The discovery was ...

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," goes the saying we've all heard and paraphrased one way or another when talking about the past, current events, and even personal ...

Hannibal Crossing the Alps by Jacopo Ripanda, c. 1510 - Getty Napoleon is relatively unusual in western history for aligning himself with the brutal Hannibal – not Hannibal’s Roman enemy, Scipio ...

Before explorers, pioneers, and cartographers, the world must have seemed very small. Eventually, people started mapping the land around them and venturing further into unexplored areas, and we’ve ...