A researcher may have identified a depiction of a female hunter—known as a venatrix—in an ancient Roman mosaic. According to ...

In theory, putting down the rebels of the First Jewish Revolt should have been easy for the mighty Roman empire. But ...

A massive Roman burial site with 3,000 tombs, which was used for 500 years, has been uncovered beneath a city. It has ...

The Colosseum has a bright new look following a restoration using the same travertine marble of ancient Rome to recreate ...

A new chemical and microscopic analysis of Pompeii residues documents a sacrificial rite that had only been previously ...

Ponte Sant'Angelo in Rome bridge is not merely a crossing over the Tiber but a magnificent gallery of history and art.

The restoration is intended to give visitors a sense of the historic structure's original scale.

A slab of limestone excavated in 1984 from the ancient Coriovallum settlement in the Netherlands presented a puzzle for researchers of Roman history. Because of its distinct grooves and marks, the ...

Most scientists claim that Romans adopted their gods directly from the Greeks. The reality, however, is more complicated.

The ancient Romans loved their birds. They rated owls as omens, valued geese as guards, kept chickens for divination, and raised peafowl for food. As for the thrush, a plumb avian of the passerine ...

“The prolonged and extreme drought seems to have occurred during a particularly poor period for Roman Britain,” Andreas Rzepecki, a co-author based in Trier, Germany. “These factors limited resilience ...