Bones found at the site of an ancient fish-processing plant were used to genetically identify the species that went into a ...

Researchers reveal what Ancient Rome smelled like – and it’s disgusting - The scents of decaying bodies and human waste would ...

Archaeologists and students in the Netherlands have unearthed a 1,800-year-old temporary Roman military fort in the ...

Throughout the thousand-year reign of the Roman Empire, disparate populations began to connect in new ways—through trade routes, economic and political collaboration, and joint military endeavors.

The parchment scroll, made in the Middle Ages, is the only surviving copy of a road map from the late Roman Empire. The document, which is almost seven metres long, shows the network of main Roman ...

The giant marble map (Forma Urbis Romae) of the ancient Rome is shown to the media in the Archaeological Park of Mount Celio Museum overlooking the Colosseum in Rome, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024.

A marble map of ancient Rome, that hasn't been put on public view for almost 100 years, is getting its very own museum within sight of the Colosseum. Skip to main content.

Although the team obviously can’t tie zircon minerals to the Roman Empire’s collapse, their lengthy migration inside frozen chunks of glacier further underscore the 6th century ice age’s ...

Empire or not, there is a growing feeling around the world that America's unrivalled power is in some sense a problem. It is something that Strobe Talbott recognises with regret. "When our friends ...

The military conquests of ancient Rome, ... The sheer size of the Western Roman Empire (highlighted in blue on the map above) created increasing difficulties in terms of administration.

Around 70 CE the Roman writer Pliny – who later died in the eruption that buried Pompeii – complained that 100 million sesterces (a type of coin) drained from the empire every year due to ...