Rotorua's own Jordi Webster stars as the arrogant but loving Tarchon in the NZ-filmed series Spartacus: House of Ashur.

From a ceramic leopard-print toothpick holder to a brushed metal candelabra, ‘expect the unexpected’ is the MO of these shows ...

An Ancient Roman erotic fresco painting has just been discovered by archeologists at a dig site in Pompeii. The stunning work ...

Pompeii's ancient Roman frescoes, shattered and buried for centuries, could get a second life thanks to a pioneering robotic ...

Pompeii's ancient Roman frescoes, shattered and buried for centuries, are getting a second life thanks to a pioneering ...

Archeological excavations at Jerash continue to produce new finds more than a century after the ancient city’s rediscovery.

The latest scroll to emerge from the ash of Vesuvius does not tidy up Stoicism so much as complicate it, by setting a rival philosophy’s private doubts alongside the public ideal of unshakable virtue.

For centuries, the tragedy of Pompeii has captured the human imagination and has stood out as one of humanity’s darkest ...

Idrissa Gueye’s sending-off for Everton for slapping his teammate in the face during a Premier League game joins the list of ...

Researchers have found footprints of large, bone-crushing dogs in the 12 million-year-old Ashfall Fossil Beds in northeastern ...

A newly discovered monumental basin in Gabii hints at how early Romans experimented with city planning long before Rome’s own layers were buried. In the center of the ancient city of Gabii, just 11 ...

Archaeologists have discovered 225 shabtis — figurines meant to work for the deceased in the afterlife — in a pharaoh's tomb.