While archaeologists have previously documented a few similar examples of ancient Roman pet monkeys elsewhere, they ...

The tomb and its personal artifacts are some of the first true pieces of evidence of an early Roman presence in the area. The ...

Archaeologists in Hungary have opened a sealed Roman coffin that had not been disturbed for roughly 1,700 years, revealing a ...

Berenike was an isolated, windswept outpost. It linked the Roman Empire to the trade routes of India, Arabia, and East Africa ...

There were many ways in which the elites of ancient Roman society flaunted their wealth. They built vast villas, sponsored ...

Archaeologists working at the animal cemetery at Berenike have documented remains from three dozen primates, marking a significant shift in Roman pet-keeping practices. Previously, the handful of ...

Pompeii Archeological Park site map, with showing where the ancient building site is located, with colour coded piles of raw construction materials (right): purple: debris; green: piles of dry ...

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Isotopic analysis confirmed that the workers in Pompeii relied on hot-mixing when making their concrete. Samples from the ...

Concrete was the foundation of the Roman Empire. For centuries, researchers have tried to uncover the secret behind the ...

Christian archaeology does not simply look at the past, he wrote, but it also speaks to all people in the present day.

Officers seized around 10,000 archaeological artifacts, including 7,000 coins issued by various Greek city-states that ...