In a nutshell Scientists discovered a human brain from 79 CE Vesuvius eruption transformed into glass—the only known case of natural organic glass preservation in history. The brain vitrified at ...

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

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

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

The oldest of these houses was Roman, occupied until the third century; the second and third houses were Byzantine. (8 things people get wrong about ancient Rome.) A reconstruction of the ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

IN matters relating to sex, the ancient Romans displayed the practical ... has explored the records of the reactions of the Roman world in marriage, in religion, in literature and in art, and ...

The cargo ship was found laden with hundreds of Roman pottery jars ... was the epitome of wealth in ancient times. After ten years, Ancient Rome sitcom Plebs is coming to an end with a feature ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remnants of London's earliest-known ancient Roman basilica on the site ... This is the heart of Rome in London, where all the decisions were made." ...