A Turkish botanist is learning how to cultivate what some believe to be the closest living relative to a Classical-era kitchen staple written about by Romans and Greeks. The golden-flowered "Silphium" was reported by Pliney the Elder as growing in modern-day Libya, and has been translated as being a prescription for everything from "stomach pain […]
The archaeologists found workshops for the manufacture and smelting of metals, pigeon towers to raise birds for food, and baths.
Buried by Vesuvius in 79 CE, the House of the Vettii "tells the story of Roman society," with elegant frescoes flaunting the men's wealth.
The team mixed their own Roman concrete and it took only 2 weeks for a deliberately inflicted crack to close.
The Catholic organization Caritas takes every euro thrown into Rome's famous fountain and funds dozens of poverty relief efforts.
Luke Farritor, one such contestant of the Vesuvius Challenge, became the first person in two millennia to see an entire word from one scroll.
The finding consisted of four swords and the Roman fighting/throwing spear called the pilum next to a coin that might date the hoard.
A pagan-Roman temple, known as a Capitolium, dedicated to Jupiter, Minvera, and Juno has Roman researchers very excited.
The item sitting on a silver platter in a new fresco looks lot like one of the other things the city of Naples is famous for: pizza.
As to why it was on the bottom of the olive oil amphora and who put it there, the authors of the study have no answers.
One of the most infamous crime scenes in all history is now open to the public-Pompey's Curia-the temporary senate where Caeser was murdered.
Excavations turned up coins, pottery shards, and roofing tiles, as well as 80 Roman burials, likely used by the city's wealthy elite
A real whiff of ancient Rome from 2,000 years ago was unleashed as a sealed vial of Roman perfume has been opened.
The papyrologists studying the decoded texts have provided a sentence from an Epicurean philosopher writing almost 2,000 years ago
They found it in an area of Lincolnshire where Roman artifacts had previously been discovered, and claim it's as large as a grapefruit.
The kids will have to make do with their backyards because preliminary surveys uncovered a Roman villa that might have been Pliny the Elder's
At 16 feet long and 2,300 years old, the incredibly detailed mosaic was made of seashells, coral, mother of pearl, and blue tiles from Egypt
The incredible statues, which haven't even turned green with age date to the Republican period, when almost all statues were made in clay.
Declassified photos captured by United States spy satellites launched during the Cold War have revealed an archaeological treasure trove: hundreds of previously unknown Roman-era forts. Corona and Hexagon were two satellite surveillance programs meant to support the Carter Doctrine of US dominance of the Middle and Near East, but now archaeologists are using their declassified […]
Pope Francis's long-awaited dream of opening a 24-hour homeless shelter and church in Rome has finally come true in time for the holidays.
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