Scientists analyzing a 2,200-year-old Roman shipwreck found that its hull was coated with pine tar and, in one area, a ...
These ancient people were living in the center of a vast empire that spanned across Europe, northern Africa, and parts of the Middle East. Lasting over a thousand years, the ancient Roman civilization ...
Scorching temperatures and a long, dry summer have given locals and tourists alike a rare opportunity to see the remains of a 2,000-year-old bridge that once spanned the Tiber river that weaves ...
Archaeologists in western Turkey recently discovered a detailed account of 1,600-year-old tax fraud so brazen that ancient ...
At the time of the structure's construction in the second century C.E., firefighting in ancient Rome was a formalized ...
Italian spear fisherman and diver Giacomo De Mola couldn’t believe his eyes when what he thought was an underwater rock turned out to be the wreck of a 2,000-year-old Roman transport vessel off the ...
But there is one thing Hollywood gets right. Gladiators were ancient Roman sex symbols, although not in the way one might expect, or that Hollywood portrays.
New stone fragments discovered in Turkey turned out to be the missing parts of a decree detailing a famous case of tax fraud in the Roman Empire.
Archaeologists hope the dig will reveal a Roman road station still buried nearby.