A rare Roman cameo relief depicting the goddess Medusa has emerged from the rubble of a construction site in the city of ...

The microbe Pyrodictium abyssi is an archaeon—a member of what's known as the third domain of life—and an extremophile. It ...

Can an acellular slime mold mimic the Roman road network in the Balkans? It’s not a riddle, but the subject of a new study by researchers in Greece and the United Kingdom. That slime mold, called ...

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Dear Neil: Attached are photos of my Celeste fig which was planted in fall 2021. It is on the east side of my shed. The plant receives shade for a couple of hours very early in the morning, but then ...

If you want a sun-soaked holiday with delicious food, Roman history and Mediterranean charm, you don’t have to join the thousands of tourists flocking to Rome. Instead, you can explore the less ...

The issue was serious enough to cause health issues for the previous residents. By Kwame Anthony Appiah My wife and I live in a neighborhood of single-family homes, most of which are owner-occupied.

A section of a Roman column unearthed during an archaeological dig is just "the tip of the iceberg" of what could lie below the ground. The column was found by volunteers digging at the cricket club ...

It brings to mind Beauty and the Beast with its multitude of towering Roman columns, high domed ceiling lined with arched windows, and rustic wooden desks that are uniquely curved to create a circular ...

Some things were truly built to last. Some two millennia ago, Romans constructed amphitheaters across their vast empire, as far north as modern-day Scotland and as far south as what’s now Libya. Large ...