To train their model, Roth and Nowak manually annotated thousands of slices of the scroll, labeling each trace of ink or ...

The rolled-up papyrus scripts were discovered in 1752 in an ancient Roman villa. Hundreds of intact Herculaneum scrolls survive, but are too fragile to open.

Cardinal Prevost's choice of the name Leo links him to Leo XIII, a 19th-century champion of social justice. It also recalls ...

Using tree-ring data from ancient oaks ... but many towns and villas across the countryside were never reoccupied. A generation later, Rome withdrew from Britain entirely. The question lingered ...

In a groundbreaking achievement, published in the journal PLOS One, researchers have identified the author and title of an ...

We asked six horticultural experts to debate and ultimately choose the places that’ve changed the way we look at — and think ...

I’m not interested in anything ­anymore,” Bill Henson says when I walk into his studio on a crisp April afternoon. He’s ...

The broken walls of the villa are covered in frescoes, or paintings made on wet plaster. Vilamuseu In the ruins of an ancient Roman villa in Spain, researchers have unearthed over 4,000 fragments ...

dotted with farms and high-status villas in the hinterland of Glevum (Roman Gloucester), a colonia founded for retired Roman soldiers.” The ancient Roman kiln found at the Centre Severn site.

A recent archaeological excavation in Switzerland turned morbid when historians came across a trove of infant burials dating back to Ancient Rome. The excavation began last May in order to make ...