Rome experienced some of it greatest economic and cultural dynamism under Nero's rule, and yet he's called everything from a ...

A recent study published in the journal Klio by researchers Haggai Olshanetsky and Lev Cosijns analyzes the true causes of ...

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A section of one of Britain’s most important Roman roads has been unearthed in south-east London in a “remarkable” ...

Because “Roman roads are characteristically straight,” archaeologists thought they knew where the London section of road ...

The legendary Roman empire took in every country around the Mediterranean Sea (which the Romans called “Mare Nostrum”—”Our Sea.”) It was so powerful that it managed to last for 500 years in the West ...

Cade DuPont, Shaun Bobbitt, Bethany Terry and Rafael Villaroel — is opening a new window on the ancient Roman city of Pompeii.

During the next century, Christians perished in China completely. With the fall of the Tang Dynasty in 907, China once again ...

This week, uncover the secrets of Pompeii through ancient DNA, meet an adventurous emperor penguin, seek signs of mysterious ...

Ancient DNA recovered from Pompeii shows that people found holding one another beneath the volcanic ash weren’t related in ...

Ancient DNA has revealed surprises about the identities of some people who perished in the ancient Roman town of Pompeii ...

UNESCO told Newsweek it "is gravely concerned about the threats posed by the conflict to the region's rich cultural heritage." ...