Archaeologists from the Museum of London have discovered a well-preserved part of the ancient city of London’s first Roman ...
The first Roman basilica found in London will soon be incorporated into modern architecture—blending ‘then’ and ‘now’ into ...
Inside the super-private Torlonia Collection of ancient marbles, and the strategy to clean them up and bring them back into ...
Pompeii only came under Roman control around 160 years before its destruction – and its traffic-worn streets show how the ...
A bioarchaeological investigation has revealed that the quality of life in the countryside was better than city life in the ...
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All roads lead to Rome, and that's especially true for Valentine's Day. A USA Today story outlines how the Roman fertility ...
Emperor Valens, eager to secure a swift victory in the Battle of Adrianople, underestimated the strength and tactics of the ...
What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?
The Ancient Graffiti Project, a research team that has included around 70 people over the past several years to locate and study graffiti from the early Roman Empire, has painstakingly documented and ...
“This papyrus is extraordinary because it provides direct insight into trial preparations in this part of the Roman Empire,” Anna Dolganov, professor at the Austrian Academy of ...
A new discovery from the Roman empire outlines a juicy case of second-century crime. Containing an extraordinary 133 lines of text, an ancient piece of papyrus shows how even Roman government had to ...