The Lycurgus Cup, an ancient Roman feat of pioneering nanotechnology in the fourth century exhibited at the British Museum. Credit: The British Museum/ X (formerly Twitter) The mysterious Lycurgus Cup ...

Babies were weaned earlier in cities in the Roman Empire than in smaller and more rural communities, according to a study of ancient teeth. Urban weaning patterns more closely hewed to guidelines ...

Recognizable quotes on the ancient Romans: “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” “All roads lead to Rome.” “Rome was not built in a day.” Caesar Augustus boasted, “I found Rome a city ...

Highway workers found an ancient Roman cemetery, including a grave filled with a curious substance, during a recent highway construction project in England. The announcement was made last week by ...

Scholars from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem unveil a unique papyrus from the ...

A cross inlaid in the floor of a library marks the spot where Indiana Jones has to dig to access the ancient catacombs of ... To find catacombs, go to Rome, home of some of the oldest and longest ...

an ancient city in modern-day Turkey, that once hosted a Roman fortress ...

The Roman God of Justice was called Justitia and she holds the scales of justice. The Tarpeian Rock was a steep cliff in ancient Rome. It was commonly used during the Roman Republic as an ...

The coins include depictions of nine Roman emperors who ruled between 364 ... because it is extremely rare to be able to study in its entirety an ancient monetary deposit in its archaeological ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/27129164 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/27129164 The Mediterranean climate presented the ancient Romans with both too much water and too ...

A new study by an international group of researchers found that lower IQs linked to lead exposure isn't a new phenomenon and actually dates back to the time of the ancient Romans. The study ...