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

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

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

Perched atop a Spanish hillside, this site had held a double surprise for archaeologists for centuries. In 2021, ahead of a planned solar panel installation, a preventive excavation near the town ...

Archaeologists have been probing a mystery which may shed light on the way the ancient people of Scotland interacted ...

He was buried with a pugio, an ancient Roman dagger, placed on his back. The pugio was still sheathed and fully intact. The researchers believe that the man was a soldier because the placement of ...

Archaeologists found the ruins of an Iron Age settlement with a “rare” ancient Roman ... How did a Roman brooch end up roughly 1,500 miles away from Rome in Scotland? “There are a few ...

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 ...

In particular, 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, ...