Beneath the volcanic ash of Pompeii, researchers from the Harvard Graduate School of Design are unearthing the hidden lives of ancient Romans at the Casa Della Regina Carolina – a once luxurious home ...

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 ...

Do you believe in ghosts? That’s what prominent Roman lawyer and statesman Pliny the Younger asked his friend in a letter around A.D. 100. “I should very much like to know whether you think there are ...

A forgotten rival of Ancient Rome has recently come into the spotlight for its impressive water basin, a testament to advanced hydraulic engineering that rivaled Roman innovations. This overlooked ...

In Rome’s own mythology, the early city was architecturally restrained and modest. This began to change, its ancient historians wrote, after Rome conquered Greece in the 2nd century B.C.E. and ...

A 1,500-year-old synagogue was recently uncovered in northern Israel — a discovery that sheds light on the enduring Jewish presence in the region that also gave rise to early Christianity. The ...

Daniella Santoro and her husband, Aaron Lorenzo, were doing yardwork at their New Orleans home in March when he found a marble slab beneath a lemon tree, hidden under a tangle of thick vines and dirt.

The Passage of Commodus was used by Roman emperors. Simona Murrone / Colosseum Archaeological Park A secret tunnel in the Colosseum once used by Roman emperors has opened to the public for the first ...

As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome—and those roads stretched 50% longer than previously known, according to a new ...

A publicly available project, Itiner-e also shows a bit of impressive historical revision is in order. It now appears that ...

The Roman Empire had an impressive road network. A new dataset now visualizes the road map, adding over 100,000 kilometers of ...