A scientist who figured out the secret behind ancient Rome's self-repairing concrete has recently confirmed his theory at a ...

Scholars Finally Decode 'Unreadable' Ancient Roman Tablets That No One Was Supposed to See ...

Archaeologists recently unearthed the remains of ancient Roman marching camps in Saxony-Anhalt — a first for one of Eastern ...

A Roman stone board game has been unplayable since its discovery more than a century ago, but AI might have just worked out ...

Key Takeaways Gladiators only fought 2-3 times annually, spending most of their time training intensively in gladiator ...

AI reimagines historical Roman figures as modern-looking people, bringing emperors, philosophers, and leaders into the present day.

New research examines how lead was used in Rome in daily life, and what archaeological evidence reveals about its health effects.

Ancient Rome’s reputation for bad emperors partly rests on hostile sources written after the fact – and Domitian may be the clearest case of how politics shaped historical memory ...

Stool transplants are cutting-edge experimental procedures, but using poop as medicine is hardly a modern idea. Ancient ...

Ancient Rome didn’t abandon its gods overnight. The rise of Christianity was a slow transformation of the cult-based religious order that had structured Roman life for centuries ...

The ancient Romans loved their birds. They rated owls as omens, valued geese as guards, kept chickens for divination, and raised peafowl for food. As for the thrush, a plumb avian of the passerine ...