Archaeologists have uncovered a thermal complex in a Roman villa in Agrigento, revealing a larger and more intricate Roman ...

Step back into the world of Ancient Rome, mapped out through Google Earth with unit placements that bring history to life.

Aerial view of the temple of Venus located in the archaeological park of Baia, a hamlet of Bacoli, in the metropolitan city of Naples, in Campania, Italy. It was an octagonal thermal building, with ...

Archaeologists excavating the remains of a Roman city in Portugal have discovered a rare bronze inkwell filled with the ...

An Egyptian-Libyan research team offers an in-depth analysis of an ancient Roman bronze steelyard balance, revealing its advanced manufacturing techniques and the ravages of time after centuries ...

"Double dyeing achieved a sophisticated imitation that could easily pass for authentic royal purple ," Dr. Sukenik explains. "Madder and woad were widely available, far cheaper, and far easier to work ...

The ancient world was probably filled with magicians using science only a few understood, but the works of one man have ...

The humble plant that grows in the Nile had a huge impact on the written word in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome and thereby on the cultures of the rest of the world. A small museum in Cairo shows how ...

The statue and a marble head of a Greek orator seized from the Met Museum were among dozens of items found to have been ...

Exploring ancient ruins is like stepping into a time machine. Some of these ruins make you wonder how in the world they were ...

More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a ...

In our new video, historian Johan Norberg, author of the new book "Peak Human," looks at the miracle of the Roman Empire, which at one point extended throughout most of Europe, and parts of Africa and ...