Concrete was the foundation of the ancient Roman empire. It enabled Rome's storied architectural revolution as well as the ...

A digital atlas of ancient Rome’s highways and byways reveals a road network that was more extensive than thought.

Isotopic analysis confirmed that the workers in Pompeii relied on hot-mixing when making their concrete. Samples from the ...

From the iconic Colosseum in Rome to Hadrian’s Wall all the way in England, there’s one question most people must ask ...

Ancient Romans were big fans of olive oil, consuming an average of five gallons per person per year by one estimate. Beyond ...

Though rare, female gladiators did appear in the Roman arena, challenging ancient Rome’s expectations and revealing how ...

During the age of emperors, Roman sculpture was of artistic, religious, and political importance, and often took on epic ...

Other Roman emperors met far more bloody ends than the cheese-loving Antoninus. Nero committed suicide; Galba was murdered by his bodyguards, the praetorians; and Geta was murdered by his brother ...

Archaeologists have brought a stark message out of the ground, a literal warning from the Roman Empire that was meant to ...

Ancient Roman ideas of privacy differed radically from our own, and their communal toilets reveal a mindset almost impossible ...