Vacationing Tourist Stumbles Upon Ancient Roman Sarcophagus That Was Being Used as a Beach Bar Table The identification of ...

Beyond the handful of memorial libraries, many other ancient Roman public libraries were great cultural centers, including ...

Few visitors wandering through the mummy galleries at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo have the opportunity—or perhaps the ...

Archaeologists working on the site of an old convent’s garden in Dijon, France, have discovered a strange group of Gallic ...

After detailed scans of the find and a yearslong preservation process, experts identified the material as a 1,600-year-old purple fabric woven with gold threads. Its purple dye, now faded to a red ...

The Bronze Age footprints stand as a dark omen of the Roman-era disaster—one that clearly went unnoticed through centuries of human activity.

Work to give 21st-century London yet another skyscraper has uncovered traces—in fact chunks—of the city's origins almost ...

A spectacular necropolis just outside Naples contains stunning tombs that were carved into rock by the ancient Greeks who ...

View of ancient Rome. Public domain image from Yale Center for British Art. According to Roman mythology, the city of Rome was founded on April 21, 753 BCE, by Romulus, a half-god who vanquished ...

The Roman empire banned pants because they were seen to be a symbol of barbarism with many conquered tribes having worn them. Credit: failing_angel. CC BY 2.0/flickr Togas and tunics were the fashion ...

The ancient Romans were masters of building and engineering, perhaps most famously represented by the aqueducts. And those still functional marvels rely on a unique construction material: pozzolanic ...

Scientists have deciphered a Roman boundary stone inscribed with Greek ... of the geography and socio-economic status of the ancient region. They’re particularly significant for what they ...