Sometimes the most significant historical discoveries happen by accident. When Professor Hannah Cotton Paltiel volunteered to ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a rare ancient Roman artifact that has revealed previously unknown places lost to time. The ...

Archaeologists in Luxembourg have unearthed a stash of Roman gold coins dating back some 1,600 years. The coins are marked ...

"This is the best-documented Roman court case from Iudaea apart from the trial of Jesus," said one researcher.

A newly translated papyrus found in Israel provides information about criminal cases and slave ownership in the Roman Empire.

The hoard contains 44 British coins that bear the name of British Celtic King Cunobelin, who reigned from around AD5 to AD40 ...

“Forgery and tax fraud carried severe penalties under Roman law, including hard labor or even capital punishment,” Dolganov ...

In the Biblical site of Abel Beth Maacah in northern Israel, archaeologists have discovered ancient Roman tablets revealing ...

Archaeologists uncovered a boundary stone, used to mark land borders during the Roman Empire, dated to a period during which ...

Ancient lead pollution in the Aegean Sea may have started 5,200 years ago — 1,200 years earlier than previously thought.

The lentil-shaped objects were unearthed in Hadrianopolis, an ancient city in modern-day Turkey, that once hosted a Roman ...

In the 1953 film Roman Holiday, Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck's characters visit The Mouth of Truth, an ancient sculpture in Rome. "The legend is that if you're given to lying, you put your hand in ...