While slaves in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii were considered no more than "speaking tools", some received better food ...
New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world.
Ancient Roman ideas of privacy differed radically from our own, and their communal toilets reveal a mindset almost impossible ...
Ancient Rome didn’t just dominate the ancient world — it pioneered extreme urban living. At its peak, between 800,000 and 1.2 ...
From the iconic Colosseum in Rome to Hadrian’s Wall all the way in England, there’s one question most people must ask ...
The people of ancient Rome didn’t have access to modern science, but they still developed complex – and incredibly intuitive ...
New DNA analysis reveals how the rise and fall of the Roman Empire ultimately shifted the population in the Balkans.
In Velzeke, near Zottegem, in East Flanders, archaeologists are searching for traces of an ancient Roman army camp. If they ...
Italy's Ministry of Culture told CNN that the treasure "represents one of the most important discoveries of numismatic finds in recent years” Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has ...
An excavation in Turkey has yielded not just artifacts — it's yielded millennia-old recipes that are bringing the flavors of Ancient Rome back to life. Archaeologists in Turkey recently completed digs ...
Croatia is home to the world's only Roman palace that people still live inside, 1700 years after it was first constructed.