A new study of a 2,200-year-old Roman shipwreck reveals that ancient sailors used sophisticated organic coatings to ...

A woman's skull, approximately 1,400 years old, discovered during the excavation of her grave in what is now Ergoldsbach. Using a tiny bone fragment from the skull, palaeogeneticists at JGU ...

This video shows the Pula Arena in Pula, Croatia, one of the best-preserved Roman amphitheaters still standing today. The ...

Ancient Rome was filled with monumental buildings, but some of its greatest achievements are barely remembered today. Among them were the largest temples ever built in the Roman world. Massive ...

We’re giving the Romans a little too much credit.

Many of today's villages and towns in Central Europe trace their origins to settlements that emerged after the collapse of ...

According to ancient Greek texts, this was a land of eternal spring, inhabited by a race of giants who lived for a thousand years without disease or war. They called it Hyperborea, a realm existing ...

Did the kings of Rome ever really exist, or where they just an invention from the Republic era? This article examines the ...

When many people talk about the ancient Greek Cynics, these peculiar philosophers, they are thinking only of Diogenes of ...

A newly identified 168‑site settlement on Georgia’s Javakheti Plateau reveals monumental fortresses, ancient burial ...

Burials that date to just after the fall of the Roman Empire are revealing the secrets of people who lived on the Roman ...

Why would anyone want to study an ancient sewer? Archeologists have been doing just that to learn more about what diseases ...