After unearthing a rare collection of highly prized Silk Road artefacts, a family in the Himalayas has opened a museum ...

In the Biblical site of Abel Beth Maacah in northern Israel, archaeologists have discovered ancient Roman tablets revealing ...

Ancient lead pollution in the Aegean Sea may have started 5,200 years ago — 1,200 years earlier than previously thought.

The lentil-shaped objects were unearthed in Hadrianopolis, an ancient city in modern-day Turkey, that once hosted a Roman ...

Scientists have deciphered a Roman boundary stone inscribed with Greek ... of the geography and socio-economic status of the ancient region. They’re particularly significant for what they ...

Deep beneath Rome’s Domus Aurea, archaeologists have unearthed a rare ingot of Egyptian blue — the world’s first synthetic ...

Now, Paltiel and her colleagues have translated the text, revealing it to be prosecutors’ notes for an ancient Roman trial from the early second century CE. The artifact provides unique insight ...

You can learn a lot about a civilization by studying how they went to the bathroom, and how they got rid of human waste. A ...

A diver just stumbled upon a bounty of ancient coins off the coast of Italy. Cultural ministers believe the that find could point toward an unknown lost shipwreck in the region. The bronze and copper ...

The Roman Colosseum, one of the seven wonders of the modern world. The Colosseum is an enduring icon of ancient Rome, renowned for its massive amphitheatre and gladiatorial games. This ...

The expansion of the Roman empire to Greece 2,100 years ago coincided with a rise in lead pollution as a by-product of an ...