What can concrete made during the Roman Empire help modern engineering develop more efficient concrete? This is what a recent study published in iScience hopes to address as an international team of ...

Roman emperors faced a high risk of violent death in their first year of rule, but the risk slowly declined over the next seven years, according to an article published in the open access journal ...

NASA has successfully completed the construction of theNancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a next-generation observatory set ...

Wax tablets were among the oldest writing media, and scientists have recently uncovered the secrets of their technology. In Ancient Rome, if you needed to write a letter, you wouldn't reach for ...

They came, they saw, they ... ordered beer, food and made IOUs. Archeologists announced Wednesday they have discovered hundreds of writing tablets from Roman London — including the oldest handwritten ...

Visitors have flocked to the once-buried city of Pompeii since its rediscovery in the mid-eighteenth century. Now you can see it up close in London with a bit of help from immersive technology. (AP ...

A chance discovery by two divers uncovered Israel's biggest find of underwater Roman-era artifacts in three decades, archaeologists said Monday as the priceless objects were showcased for the first ...

Centuries after the Roman Empire left its mark across, many of its stories still sit locked inside damaged stone and pottery. In recent years, researchers faced the daunting problem of reading ancient ...