The fall of the Roman Empire remains one of the most intriguing and widely studied events in human history. While traditional ...

Discover how the Roman Empire’s institutions and culture persisted well into 700 AD, challenging the idea that it simply ...

From seasonal intimacy schedules to open-air nudity, ancient Greco-Roman thinkers had no shortage of theories on how to stay ...

The Lower Germanic Lines, now in the Netherlands, had been considered the northernmost outpost of the Roman Empire. But the discovery of a fort at the Hoog Buurlo site in Veluwe, dated to the second ...

Portus lulius was a Roman naval base at Misenum, which used to be the headquarters of the Roman Empire’s fleet in the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Classis Misenensis. This fleet was commanded by Pliny the ...

We can probably safely assume Rome, in many areas, was likely pretty dirty and rank-smelling. That said, there’s evidence of ...

Archaeologists were working on “La Place,” a medieval northern city gate that was demolished in the 1700s, when they found a ...

Discover India’s most hauntingly beautiful cemeteries—quiet sanctuaries where colonial echoes, forgotten legacies, and ...

The latest tranche of records from the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (VRTI) has 175,000 new documents lost in a fire at ...

In 2024, researchers revealed they had found new details of the Ancient Greek philosopher Plato’s burial site. It was a ...

Made from natural materials such as clay, water jug filters have been used for hundreds of years in every continent by ...

Not every memorable walk involves climbing mountains or heading somewhere remote. Plenty of great routes stick to gentler ...