From Rome’s holiest texts to a Chinese ... covering poetry, rhetoric, ancient rites, history and divination. The sixth, on music, may have disappeared in the 3rd-century-B.C. “Burning of ...

Watch Pink Floyd’s performance of One Of These Days from their restored Pompeii concert film which arrives in cinemas on ...

Bronze Age cymbals found in Oman reveal how music united ancient cultures across trade routes, ceremonies, and rituals.

To commit tax fraud with the slave trade in the most remote corner of the Roman world, what would you have to do, and what would have made the effort profitable? The ancient scheme has resonated ...

The cymbals were excavated from a building dating to the third millennium BCE, associated with the Umm an-Nar culture. Though ...

Music is an important part of many religious ceremonies by lifting spirits and often being the prayer itself. NBC’s Anne ...

New evidence supporting the former argument comes from oddly out-of-place rocks collected not from modern areas of the ancient Roman empire, but from Iceland. Although the region is known ...

Formerly known as Byzantium, this ancient city was built to rival Rome. It was known for its state-of-the-art fortifications. After the Great Schism of 1054, which broke Christianity into Roman ...

Archaeologists have made two extraordinary discoveries in the Italian town of Agrigento on Sicily's southwest coast. During ...

The term is applied to radically different compositions across more than 1,000 years of history. We need a better definition.

The trail’s 215 miles connect ancient road networks with modern hiking paths, tracing rivers, twisting up gorges and traversing the ruins of Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine cities. Map ...