Venturing into an Etruscan tomb once meant crawling through rubble, breathing dust, and crawling into rooms excavated more ...

The world's first taxis appeared in ancient Rome. First they were chariots. Later they were replaced by horse-drawn carriages ...

Of all the comparisons between ancient Rome and modern America, the idea that the United States is destined to fall like the Roman Empire is the most persistent myth. While commentators often point to ...

Did ancient Romans collect fossils? New discovery offers a clue. Did ancient Romans collect fossils? New discovery offers a clue. The most expensive mistake in ancient Roman history The most expensive ...

A millennia-old helmet that saw ancient Rome’s first great Mediterranean war was recently unearthed in Italy. The find was announced by the Sicilian regional government in a Sept. 5 announcement. In a ...

In a new study published in Gladius, a pair of researchers from the University of Salamanca and the University of Leon translated a quartzite funerary stele inscription written in Latin, which they ...

A new study by the University of Science and Technology of China's (USTC) Archaeo-metallurgy Laboratory reveals a compelling ...

A discovery in Romania shows the remains of an elite family's treasures from the Roman era that were scorched in a fire.

Ancient Greek inventions included remarkable automata and the Antikythera Mechanism, but many of their engineers' innovations ...

In 1957, the first fragments of statues were discovered at Sperlonga, Emperor Tiberius's pleasure palace from the first century A.D. But when Italian officials tried to take the relics to Rome, the ...

A fractured brown bear skull unearthed at the Roman amphitheater of Viminacium in modern-day Serbia offers the first-ever direct physical evidence of these animals’ involvement in ancient games, ...