Spartacus, a Thracian gladiator who had once served in the Roman army, escaped from slavery in 73 BCE. What began as a prison ...

A re-analysis of the burials, including radiocarbon dating, has revealed that, rather than dying in a single event, ...

An ancient Roman symbol of victory in battle surfaced in a pile of rubble at Hadrian’s Wall in Vindolanda, Great Britain, to ...

An illustration of a magnifying glass. An illustration of a magnifying glass.

Göran Bengtsson, a hobby archaeologist, was studying an 18th-century map of southwestern Sweden when he noticed something unusual.

The relief depicts a woman, identified by archaeologists as the goddess Victoria, or Victory, according to the release. The counterpart to Greek goddess Nike, Victoria personified victory and was ...