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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

He was found lying on his bed inside the Collegium Augustalium, a building in the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum that belonged to an imperial cult dedicated to Emperor Augustus. Like Pompeii ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...