Roman Italy

Scientists may have just found a canal the Romans built 2,100 years ago while battling the Celts.

Discover how genetic data supports archeological evidence that some hunter-gatherers who originated in Europe 'held out' on farming, dared to cross Mediterranean.

The depiction of a Dionysiac mystery cult now serves as an "exceptional historical document," allowing us a glimpse into one curious aspect of the ancient city.

Vesuvius victim's brain liquified at up to 1,100 degrees, then quickly cooled: study

Archaeologists have already found more than 200 tombs—and they think that might be just the tip of the iceberg.

Footprints from people and animals feeling the eruption of Vesuvius in 1995 B.C. were recently discovered in a town near Pompeii.

Local Romans not entertained by Colosseum becoming an Airbnb

If we want to research a subject, how do we do it? We could read about it in books or do experiments in a lab. Or another way is to find people who know something about it and ask them.

The fortification was built to corral the slave-revolt leader and his forces.

Archaeologists in southern France have excavated an ancient Roman cemetery containing 1,430 graves and traces of a funerary festival, during which families feasted by the graves of relatives.

Prehistoric humans adorned themselves with different types of beads depending on their culture and location in Europe.

We have just entered a leap year, meaning we will get an extra day this year. But why do we need these extended years and how did they come about?

During ongoing excavations at Claterna, an ancient Roman site in Italy known as the "Pompeii of the North," archaeologists unearthed 3,000 coins and 50 gems.

Mount Vesuvius' eruption in A.D. 79 carbonized hundreds of scrolls and papyri in the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum. Now, AI has decoded part of a scroll.

It's easy to equate Caucasian with white. But the word Caucasian touches on issues deeper than skin color. HowStuffWorks looks at its true meaning.

The origin of the glass may have been from the sands of Egypt.

A headless bronze statue believed to depict the Roman emperor and philosopher Marcus Aurelius has been ordered seized from the Cleveland Museum of Art

In December 2022, construction workers at the site on the outskirts of Sarsina, a small town in Italy, unearthed the ruins of an ancient Roman temple — or...

Richard Beale has pleaded guilty over the sales of the $4m Eid Mar and parts of the "Gaza Hoard".

Goths living in northern Poland between the first and fifth centuries were talented silversmiths and produced jewelry that was as high-quality as items from the Roman Empire.