In a nutshell Scientists discovered a human brain from 79 CE Vesuvius eruption transformed into glass—the only known case of natural organic glass preservation in history. The brain vitrified at ...

IN matters relating to sex, the ancient Romans displayed the practical ... has explored the records of the reactions of the Roman world in marriage, in religion, in literature and in art, and ...

The extreme and rapid nature of Mount Vesuvius' pyroclastic flows vitrified the brain tissue of the unfortunate Roman soldier ...

You'd expect to find a rare ancient Roman helmet in Rome, but where this one was found reveals just how far the Roman Empire fought from home.

From famed French author Jean-Pierre Pecau and legendary artist Max Von Fafner comes a tale of a gladiator's quest for ...

The oldest of these houses was Roman, occupied until the third century; the second and third houses were Byzantine. (8 things people get wrong about ancient Rome.) A reconstruction of the ...

The excavation of an ancient Roman city has rewritten the history of the Empire's collapse, archaeologists say. A team of researchers led by the University of Cambridge completed a 13-year dig at ...

Sifting through the dark brown soil of southwestern Scotland, archaeologists unearthed a “rare” and “visually striking” Roman ...

The cargo ship was found laden with hundreds of Roman pottery jars ... was the epitome of wealth in ancient times. After ten years, Ancient Rome sitcom Plebs is coming to an end with a feature ...

two figures – the cinaedus and the gallus – provide examples of men whose effeminate behavior and modified anatomies were striking yet still integrated into Roman society. In ancient Rome ...

The marbles in the Torlonia Collection have been inaccessible to the public for decades. Now, some of them will be exhibited in Chicago, Fort Worth and Montreal Sonja Anderson Found in the ...