The Sabines, a Spartan tribe, shaped the early Romans with their martial skill, social order, and lasting cultural and ...

The discovery of a single grave in a Dutch town has pushed the story of Rome’s northern frontier into sharper focus than any ...

Under the direction of Marcello Mogetta from the University of Missouri, a team of archaeologists has discovered a large ...

A 1,800-year-old silver amulet discovered beneath the chin of a skeleton in a cemetery in Germany is the oldest evidence of Christianity north of the Alps, according to a new study. Researchers made ...

Archaeologists working at the Ancient Bononia site in Vidin, Bulgaria have made a remarkable discovery that offers fresh insight into Roman marriage customs. A substantial gold ring weighing 23.63 ...

Scientists at U.K.-based DeepMind, the Google LLC laboratory that specializes in advanced artificial intelligence, have developed a solution to decipher ancient Roman texts that are often damaged and ...

Pompeii Archeological Park site map, with showing where the ancient building site is located, with colour coded piles of raw construction materials (right): purple: debris; green: piles of dry ...

This straight-arm gesture was first popularized by the Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini. There’s no evidence that there was ever such a thing as a ‘Roman salute’ in antiquity. From airing his ...

When Irene Soto Marín, an assistant professor of Roman history at Harvard, goes on a first date with a man, one of two things usually happens: They’ll either start mansplaining facts about the Empire ...

Researchers have deciphered a mysterious inscription hidden within an ancient amulet, uncovering fascinating new insights into the early history of Christianity. The small, silver amulet was ...