Airborne particles from minting coins damaged health, a new study says, and might have contributed to the Roman Empire’s ...

Ancient Rome wasn’t just the capital of a vast empire ... numbers behind Rome’s unrivalled glory. 1,000,000: Rome’s population by 1 A.D. The city was the first in history to reach this ...

In Ancient Greece and Rome, only men of certain social and economic standing were able to keep their ... In reality, two fundamental preconditions governed most peoples’ lives in classical antiquity.

Archaeologists were recently excavating the Villamagna site in Italy's Macerata province when they made an unprecedented ...

A cross inlaid in the floor of a library marks the spot where Indiana Jones has to dig to access the ancient catacombs of ... To find catacombs, go to Rome, home of some of the oldest and longest ...

The basilica, dating back some 1,900 years, was found during excavations that took place as part of the demolition of a ...

Credit: failing_angel. CC BY 2.0/flickr Togas and tunics were the fashion in ancient Rome for both men and women, but the Roman Empire covered a large area of the map. Thus, conquered cultures had ...

The concept of rights has been a cornerstone in the evolution of human civilization, shaping societies and defining the ...

This week, explore decoded words from charred ancient scrolls, meet heroic frog daddies, see Grand Canyon-size lunar features ...

According to a release from Museums Worcestershire, a trove of 1,368 silver and gold coins from the Iron Age and Ancient Rome were found by an anonymous metal detectorist searching an unnamed area ...