A nearly yearlong excavation project in northern Switzerland is offering a glimpse into life in some of the Roman empire’s ...

For the first time, bite marks made by a large cat, possibly an African lion, have been identified on the bones of what is ...

Core elements of Roman law can be traced back to the ancient Greek world. Roman law has been fundamental to the foundations ...

In addition to ancient Roman pottery, jewelry, rare coins, and evidence of a road system, the 18-acre site in Newington, ...

There’s nothing new about our modern obsession with playing and watching sports – they were popular in ancient Greek and ...

Dr Joann Fletcher enters the tomb of an ancient Egyptian architect called Kha. She travels to the Valley of the Kings to meet Steve Cross, who is an expert on tombs. Together they take a look at ...

Archaeologists uncovered walls that date back to between the 9th and 13th century, be part of the Patriarchate. The discovery ...

A new study, though, has posited that a climactic event called the Late Antique Little Ice Age may have been the straw that ...

The extraordinary colonia, founded by Roman soldiers between the 2nd and 3rd centuries, yielded several remarkable ...

The area was inhabited by the ancient Romans, who founded the city in 71 A.D. and named it Eboracum. Until now, archaeologists weren't sure that gladiatorial fights with lions took place outside ...