The residents of ancient Pompeii performed regular religious rituals using fancy imported incense resins that came from far beyond the borders of the Roman Empire. These sacrificial offerings are ...
A new chemical and microscopic analysis of Pompeii residues documents a sacrificial rite that had only been previously ...
The Colosseum has a bright new look following a restoration using the same travertine marble of ancient Rome to recreate ...
The fortress stood undisturbed for two millennia.
As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and those roads stretched 50% longer than previously known, according to a new digital atlas published Thursday. The last major atlas of ancient Roman ...
A slab of limestone excavated in 1984 from the ancient Coriovallum settlement in the Netherlands presented a puzzle for researchers of Roman history. Because of its distinct grooves and marks, the ...
The restoration is intended to give visitors a sense of the historic structure's original scale.
Heritage Daily reports on how Archaeologists from the Museum of National History and Archaeology Constanța (MINAC) carried out preventive excavations at a municipal hospital site, an area legally ...
The Roman Republic fell roughly 2,000 years ago — the culmination of a series of events including Julius Caesar’s assassination 2,069 years ago today. Yet the republic’s ruin still influences how we ...
The project focused on a semicircular piazza outside the arena, where spectators crowded under two arcades comprised of ...