In South Moravia, Czechia, archaeologists have found a bronze fragment from a Roman wrist purse which dates back 1,800 years, ...

From seasonal intimacy schedules to open-air nudity, ancient Greco-Roman thinkers had no shortage of theories on how to stay ...

Archaeologists reported finding the first "exceptionally large shoe" on May 21 and have continued to discover more since then ...

Sarah Bond is a professor of classics at the University of Iowa and the author of Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in ...

Throughout the history of Rome, from the republic to the age of empire, the Roman Legions were the best conventional fighting ...

Mangled bones found at a one-time manufacturing facility pinpoint species used to make a quintessential condiment.

DNA from a Roman salting site in Spain reveals sardines were the key fish used in garum, the famous sauce rooted in Greek and ...

To modern eyes, much of Pompeii’s erotic art might look like ancient pornography. But to the Romans, these images weren’t ...

We can probably safely assume Rome, in many areas, was likely pretty dirty and rank-smelling. That said, there’s evidence of ...

DNA from a Roman salting site in Spain reveals sardines were the key fish used in garum, the famous sauce rooted in Greek and ...

A stash of unusually large 2,000-year-old shoes dug up at a Roman site in northern England has left archaeologists searching ...

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...