These findings challenge the long-held narrative about migration into and out of North Africa before and during the Neolithic ...

(8 things people get wrong about ancient Rome.) A reconstruction of the consulting room of the Surgeon’s House at the Museum of Rimini shows furniture that typically adorned such a house in the ...

Lead pollution in ancient Rome was so high that it dropped the population’s IQ by around 3 points, if not more. Elites were exposed to lead through water pipes, cooking pots, bath tubs ...

After ten years, Ancient Rome sitcom Plebs is coming to an end with a feature-length finale. The study of the sewers under Rome's landmark found traces of olives, nuts and other foods. The ...

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 ...

A Modern Pedestrian Walkway for Rome's Ancient Trevi Fountain Is in the ... submerged statues from the glory days of Baie, and a reconstruction of Claudius’ nymphaeum. The latter allows divers ...

Greek myth states that the region near Asini was first populated by the Dryopes, an ancient tribe driven out by Hercules.

The ancient road that ran through northern Greece and connected Rome to Byzantium. Credit: Berthold Werner via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 Roman civilization is well known for its stunning mosaics ...

Women didn’t generally get invited to banquets except on rare occasions such as wedding feasts—and even then they were expected to sit upright. It was only in ancient Rome that customs changed, ...

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 ...

The picturesque Mediterranean island of Ischia, which is near the western coastline of Italy, was home to a cosmopolitan community of settlers and visitors in ancient times.Thanks to the isotopic anal ...