A massive Roman burial site with 3,000 tombs, which was used for 500 years, has been uncovered beneath a city. It has ...
The residents of ancient Pompeii performed regular religious rituals using fancy imported incense resins that came from far beyond the borders of the Roman Empire. These sacrificial offerings are ...
Ponte Sant'Angelo in Rome bridge is not merely a crossing over the Tiber but a magnificent gallery of history and art.
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 ...
The restoration is intended to give visitors a sense of the historic structure's original scale.
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 ...
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 ...
When you think of a fight between an animal and a human in ancient Roman sports, the mental image is usually of a big man vs.