The Roman emperors were once the most famous people in the world, ruling over an empire that stretched between what are now ...

Pierre-Yves Lambert, a French linguist and Celtic studies scholar at the National Centre for Scientific Research, suggested ...

Sunglasses are important for protection but over the centuries they have also become fashion accessories and personal ...

Archaeologists recently concluded their excavation of an area in Luxembourg that contained a hoard of 141 ancient Roman coins ...

Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by ash and lava in A.D. 70, has revealed a new treasure – a private bathhouse built ...

Babies were weaned earlier in cities in the Roman Empire than in smaller and more rural communities, according to a study of ...

A private spa complex belonging to a member of the ancient Roman elite, complete with enormous plunge pool and hot baths, has ...

A search for a rumored Roman estate in Germany led archaeologists to something much larger: the ruins of an ancient Roman ...

Lead pollution might sound like a modern problem, but people were subjected to significant levels during antiquity, too.

"Human or industrial activities 2,000 years ago were already having continental-scale impacts on human health," study lead ...

A bio-archaeologist with the University of Reading, in the U.K., has found an ancient dog's red-painted penis bone along with ...