The same travertine quarries near Rome that built St. Peter’s Basilica and the Colosseum are still being dug out today.

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

Drawing on the famous judgment of Edward Gibbon and the testimony of ancient sources, this detailed historical analysis explores the Roman Empire between 98 and 180 AD, the age of the so-called Five ...

Researchers found a tiny bottle from ancient Rome that contained fecal residue and traces of aromatics, offering evidence that poop was used medicinally more than 2,000 years ago.

Few figures in late Roman history are as controversial as Flavius Ricimer. Accused of betraying Majorian, poisoning emperors, and sacking Rome in 472, he has long been cast as the villain of the ...

In the medieval period, when Arabic chroniclers recorded eclipses, they usually noted concurrent deaths of rulers. And in Europe, a solar eclipse in 1133 was so closely associated with the 1135 death ...

A remarkable Roman mosaic found in Rutland turns out to tell a forgotten version of the Trojan War. Rather than Homer’s famous epic, it reflects a lost Greek tragedy by Aeschylus, featuring vivid ...

The Lelantine War may have been one of the only wars in ancient Greece to involve multiple cities, but did it really happen?

In the wake of Alaric’s devastating invasion of Greece in 396 AD, the Eastern Roman Empire made a fateful decision: seal off the Peloponnese behind a massive stone barrier. The Hexamilion Wall ...

Archeologists found evidence that ancient Romans may have used a medical treatment involving perfume... and human feces.