Dating from the 1 st century BC or AD, it belongs to a pivotal period in Roman history, marked by the expansion of the Empire and foreign influences. The body found inside the coffin was lying on ...

Archaeologists have assembled the “world’s most difficult jigsaw puzzle” to reveal huge frescoes that once adorned a luxury ...

Nîmes, located in France's Occitanie region, has a long history having been established as a Roman ... body by scraping off dirt, perspiration, and oil) and lamps, as well as the "very well ...

While most of us think of Pompeii and Herculaneum if we’re thinking of everyday objects preserved from ancient ... of saying you’re entering the Roman empire than seeing that structure ...

ROME — Italian archaeologists are hailing a recent discovery as the "most exceptional ... it could rewrite the history of the relationship between the Etruscan and Roman civilizations.

Photo: Pier Paolo Petrone Nearly 2,000 years ago, Mount Vesuvius erupted, swallowing the nearby Roman towns of ... and freezing, our most important organ is preserved in various instances in ...

Claiming some of Europe's best-preserved Roman monuments ... But when it comes to Roman history, the pièce de la résistance is the Pont du Gard. This astonishing, three-tier aqueduct is half ...

Stephen Knowles Photography via Getty Images Ancient Roman infrastructure can put modern ... Ancient engineers used the dry, most reactive form of limestone called quicklime, instead of or in ...