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 ...

Though rare, female gladiators did appear in the Roman arena, challenging ancient Rome’s expectations and revealing how ...

Ancient Roman ideas of privacy differed radically from our own, and their communal toilets reveal a mindset almost impossible ...

Hundreds of weapons from the Roman era have been unearthed in a park in a city located in southeastern France. These findings are thought to be remnants of the Battle of Lyon, which occurred on ...

The discovery of a single grave in a Dutch town has pushed the story of Rome’s northern frontier into sharper focus than any ...

The sarcophagus was found among abandoned houses in a quarter of Aquincum that had been vacated in the 3rd century and later repurposed as a burial ground. Nearby discoveries included a Roman aqueduct ...

Scientists at U.K.-based DeepMind, the Google LLC laboratory that specializes in advanced artificial intelligence, have developed a solution to decipher ancient Roman texts that are often damaged and ...

For the first time, archaeologists have discovered wooden defenses surrounding an ancient Roman military base. The fence topped with sharpened wooden stakes, akin to today’s barbed wire, is the kind ...

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You've probably heard it before: ancient Romans used urine to clean their teeth. It's one of those historical "facts" that gets repeated at dinner parties, mentioned in trivia games, and spread across ...