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Camilla was given a guided tour of Bath’s Holburne Museum as she spent the day highlighting arts and culture in a city famed ...

A carved stone featuring a pattern of lines which had Dutch experts scratching their heads has been identified as a board for a Roman game. The stone, found during a dig in the Limburg town of Heerlen ...

Ancient Greco-Roman texts discuss the use of excrement in medicine, but this is the first direct evidence we've found that ...

Underground Roman aqueduct with tunnel and ancient spring that supplied the town confirmed, revealed by new detailed map of the system.

There is no polity more storied in the west than the Roman Empire, but could its fall have really been caused by its choice of plumbing material?

Archaeologists uncover a rare lead pipeline in Petra’s ancient aqueduct, revealing new insights into Nabataean engineering.

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Advanced imaging technology has revealed 79 new pieces of graffiti on a wall in the city's theater district. Until now, these inscriptions had been too faint for the human eye to see ...