An ancient-DNA analysis of victims in Pompeii who died in Mount Vesuvius' eruption reveals some unusual relations between the people who died together.

The remains of that structure — the only concrete ... rest of the world with its export. The Roman general Julius Caesar was forced to set fire to his own ships during the Siege of Alexandria in 48 BC ...

University of Michigan researchers have added a new dimension to the mathematics used to predict the outcomes of all manner ...

The burial is called a “composite inhumation,” a practice in which a group will build a skeleton for social purposes from the ...

Nero, who ruled from A.D. 54 to 68, is often remembered as one of history’s most notorious emperors, his reputation steeped ...

A recent discovery has brought new light to an ancient Mediterranean port and its role in cross-cultural exchanges. Near ...

The largest known Roman amphitheatre was the Colosseum in Rome, capable of holding up to 50,000 spectators. Several amphitheatres, such as the Pula Arena in Croatia and the Nimes Arena in France, have ...

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Excavations in the ancient city ... the theater structure. The findings indicate that the theater was used for purposes beyond its original intent during the Eastern Roman period and served ...

For example, one estimate is that one third of the Roman empire’s entire revenue was generated by taxes on trade with ancient India. Historian William Dalrymple’s latest book — The Golden ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Roman military structure in Turkey dating to ... Little is known about this ancient fort, which at one time was called Cepha, from the Aramaic ...

A fresco featuring the bright blue paint of the newly opened room; a scanning electron image of an ancient Roman concrete sample with lime clast, highlighted in red; Dr. Masic inspecting the ...