An ancient board game discovered at a Roman frontier fort near Hadrian’s Wall has been recreated using 3D scanning and ...

Until now, the earliest known instance of human interest in ichthyosaurs was in 1699, but a peculiar discovery pushes that ...

This video shows the Roman Forum (Foro Romano) in Rome, Italy, the political, religious, and commercial center of the ancient ...

Soldiers and civilians alike enjoyed strategy game Ludus Latrunculorum in the Roman Empire, especially in Roman Britain ...

Long before electricity, Roman engineers embedded reflective marble into Pompeii's basalt roads to safely guide nighttime ...

The remarkably preserved domus, complete with vaulted ceilings and painted walls, is now the focus of an archaeological ...

Ancient Rome had plenty of normal food, including bread, olives, beans, wine, fish, and fruit. Then there were the dishes ...

Meteorological tsunamis likely sank the 13th-century trading vessels, whose cargo included objects from both Christian ...

An 18th-century archaeological dig uncovered a library of intact but charred scrolls. Their contents have been unreadable ...

Archaeologists exploring the Roman-era ruins of Heraclea Sintica in southwestern Bulgaria have made an exceptionally rare ...

Ancient Roman villa with frescoes is discovered beneath a high school gym near Rome's Colosseum after students brought ...