The Roman Empire may have fallen more than 1,500 years ago, but its streets never truly disappeared. Across Europe and the ...

Yet Trimalchio was mistaken. He had not reckoned with Kim Bowes, professor of ancient history and archaeology at the ...

An excavation in Turkey has yielded not just artifacts — it's yielded millennia-old recipes that are bringing the flavors of Ancient Rome back to life. Archaeologists in Turkey recently completed digs ...

Evidence of a Roman industrial hub in North East England dating back over 1,900 years has been unearthed. The "extraordinary" discovery at the Offerton site, on the banks of the River Wear near ...

Archaeologists analyzing a Roman sewer at Vindolanda uncover evidence soldiers lived with chronic gut parasites despite ...

Archaeologists in Romania have unearthed an elite Roman family’s ancient treasure, buried for centuries beneath the remains of a millennia-old city. The discovery, announced by the National History ...

A digital atlas of ancient Rome’s highways and byways reveals a road network that was more extensive than thought. By Franz Lidz The apostle Paul traveled widely across the Roman Empire to spread the ...

A talent was the largest unit of monetary measurement in ancient Greece and Rome, and was equivalent to approximately 25 kg ...

Archaeologists have removed the lid of a sealed ancient Roman sarcophagus, finding preserved remains of a young woman who died 1,700 years ago. The team with the Budapest History Museum discovered the ...

The cultural and scientific revolutions that define the Renaissance were kickstarted in large part by Europe’s rediscovery of lost Roman sculpture. Inspiring the likes of Raphael, Donatello, ...

Rome is a city where every cobblestone street, piazza, and ancient ruin tells a story that has been centuries in the making.