Researchers have estimated how much the home's owners may have paid to paint the small sacrarium, calculating the price of ...

The fortress stood undisturbed for two millennia.

The Roman Republic fell roughly 2,000 years ago — the culmination of a series of events including Julius Caesar’s ...

Pliny the Elder was an intellectual powerhouse of ancient Rome. Though not a physician, in describing the ideal daily routine ...

The ancient city of Pompeii is one of those archaeological sites that keeps on giving with one discovery after another. While much of what we know about the Roman settlement comes from the eruption of ...

Is it any wonder ancient people thought lightning came from the gods? Even today a close lightning strike feels like a terrifying brush with the supernatural. Some ancient thinkers, however, suspected ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a monumental Roman funerary complex near the town of Apollosa in southern Italy’s Benevento province. The discovery of ancient gladiator carvings from the Roman era came ...

Before World War II, the Nazis sought an ancient Roman manuscript to prove the existence of a superior race linked to Atlantis.

“The prolonged and extreme drought seems to have occurred during a particularly poor period for Roman Britain,” Andreas ...

Though it's been a while since ancient Romans walked among us, as it turns out, the way they ate is pretty similar to some foods we still enjoy today.

A growing number of researchers are turning to the Pompeii's graffiti to better understand the lives, humor and concerns of ...