Teachers at nine high schools in northeastern Australia discovered days before an ancient history exam that they had ...

The final decades of the second century BC, and the first decades of the first century BC, were an incredibly tumultuous time ...

Rome once had a near-equal rival just 11 miles away in the early days of the empire. The ancient Roman city of Gabii may not ...

Archaeologists found a 2,000-year-old Roman camp 7,000 feet up in the Swiss Alps, with sling bullets from the Roman 3rd ...

Ghosts stories appear in several surviving texts from ancient Rome. What do they reveal about the people who told them?

Deep-sea divers from the Society for the Documentation of Submerged Sites, working with Sicily’s Superintendency of the Sea, discovered the bronze helmet—this one complete with cheekpieces, an ...

In Croatia, archaeologists have discovered a mass grave dating back to the third century CE that indicates another key to ...

Radiocarbon dating and a coin minted in 251 AD found within the well confirmed the remains dated to the second half of the third century AD, perfectly coinciding with the Crisis of the Third Century ...

Archaeologists uncover a vast 250 B.C. stone pool near Rome, Italy, revealing early Roman monumental architecture predating ...

In a city filled to the brim with iconic buildings of both the ancient and not-so-ancient variety, the Colosseum of Rome stands apart from the rest. The ancient stadium, an arched, elliptical arena, ...