Archaeologists in France have uncovered a 1,700-year-old ancient Roman funerary area, including burials with libation ...

Ghosts stories appear in several surviving texts from ancient Rome. What do they reveal about the people who told them?

The tall, adult men probably died during the battle of Mursa in 260 C.E., according to a new analysis of their remains ...

More than 160 cremation graves were discovered at the ancient site of Olbia, which began as a fortified Greek settlement around 350 B.C. in what is now the south of France. The ge ...

The new director of Rome’s Colosseum, has rejected reports that the ancient site will host electronic dance music parties.

An excavation in Turkey has yielded not just artifacts — it's yielded millennia-old recipes that are bringing the flavors of Ancient Rome back to life. Archaeologists in Turkey recently completed digs ...

To a historian of ancient Rome like Mary Beard, it’s always timely to talk about the empire. But her new book about the daily lives of Roman Emperors, Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World, ...

(The Conversation) — There may have been fear of gender-diverse people in the ancient world, but they played a crucial role. In Rome, they were viewed as vital to the city’s safety. (The Conversation) ...

A tourist is dead after falling from the Pantheon in Rome and into a ditch on Oct. 24. Police are currently investigating the ...

Italy's Ministry of Culture told CNN that the treasure "represents one of the most important discoveries of numismatic finds in recent years” Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has ...

A TikTok contrarian once made waves with a bold claim that the Roman Empire wasn’t real—something she later tried to walk back by saying her original video was just a “metaphor.” But her timelines and ...

Intrigued and slightly alarmed, Santoro reached out to her classical archaeologist colleague Susann Lusnia, who quickly realized that the slab was the 1,900-year-old grave marker of a Roman sailor ...