Roman military officers kept monkeys as companions and even gave them their own pets - Remains in an ancient cemetery provide ...

Berenike was an isolated, windswept outpost. It linked the Roman Empire to the trade routes of India, Arabia, and East Africa ...

Archaeologists in Jerusalem recently discovered a massive Hanukkah-era wall from an ancient power struggle between Hasmonean ...

A Roman treasure hoard melted in a fire 1,800 years ago has been found in Histria, revealing jewelry, coins, and the life of ...

New research suggests that the illustrations may have been based on "Phrygians," a tragedy by the Athenian playwright ...

The Vatican released Pope Leo's apostolic letter "on the importance of archaeology," Dec. 11, "on the occasion of the ...

Pompeii Archeological Park site map, with showing where the ancient building site is located, with colour coded piles of raw construction materials (right): purple: debris; green: piles of dry ...

Archaeologists have uncovered remnants of Nya Lödöse, a forgotten 16th-century city beneath modern Gothenburg, revealing ...

Pope Leo XIV's Augustinian order once performed green-fingered, dragon-slaying miracles. Dr Krisztina Ilko rediscovers their ...

A rare Roman-era mosaic discovered beneath a farmer’s field in Rutland has been found to depict a forgotten version of the ...

Archaeologists uncovered a Pompeii project that reveals how ancient Romans used hot-mixing technology to create durable ...