While excavating at the ancient fort of La Loma in the northern Iberian Peninsula, archaeologists found the shattered ...

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

There were 22 gold objects, in addition to other impressive grave goods, buried with the deceased, indicating they were ...

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

A discovery in Sardinia reveals up to 50,000 intact Roman coins, prompting research into trade, shipwrecks, and Mediterranean ...

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 uncovered a rare Roman mosaic depicting a long-lost Trojan War narrative, including the weighing of ...

New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world.

Archaeologists working at the animal cemetery at Berenike have documented remains from three dozen primates, marking a significant shift in Roman pet-keeping practices. Previously, the handful of ...

Croatia is home to the world's only Roman palace that people still live inside, 1700 years after it was first constructed.

A key figure in this controlled chaos was the Saturnalicius Princeps, or “Leader of Saturnalia.” This mock king was chosen by ...