"These are ritual objects made specifically for burials and brought from Greece," explained a former archaeologist now ...

What comes to mind when you think about the kind of Roman Emperor who managed to establish an indestructible empire?

Along with the majority of the other gates that once lined the ancient city wall, it was finally demolished in the 18th century to improve traffic access. This wonderfully intact section of wall would ...

Instead, the archaeologists — budding and not — last summer uncovered what may be the oldest existing example in the ancient Roman world of a mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath. They have ...

Roman Soldier Flaccus Found 2,000 Years Later In the area where they found evidence of Roman-era habitation, crews also discovered a grave near a ditch—just one shallow burial of a man believed ...

The decade-long research, published recently in Roman Urbanism in Italy, rewrites the timeline of the ancient empire’s collapse. So far, at sites across the city Interamna Lirenas ...

Public ceremonies, lavish processions, and temporary wooden arches were commonplace after victory in Ancient ... processions through Rome were a way for generals and their soldiers to celebrate ...

Archaeologists found the ruins of an Iron Age settlement with a “rare” ancient Roman brooch buried ... popular among members of the Roman military forces,” Jordan Barbour, one of the company ...