New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world.

The partial collapse of the Torre di Conti has sparked a negligence probe and renewed fears about how the Eternal City ...

Structures like the Pantheon, aqueducts and many others containing a type of concrete made by the Romans impressively still ...

The people of ancient Rome didn’t have access to modern science, but they still developed complex – and incredibly intuitive ...

From dull relics to gleaming treasures, these Roman silver coins undergo a meticulous revival. The process shows the delicate art of balancing preservation with restoration, leaving behind coins that ...

The Italian town just outside of Rome is home to Hadrian’s Villa, a Roman emperor’s countryside getaway, and Villa d’Este, ...

The ancient Greek city of Pergamon was a major center of culture and learning of the Hellenistic world, standing out for its ...

A new genetic study reveals that domestic cats arrived in Europe from North Africa around 2,000 years ago, challenging the ...

The team analyzed DNA from 225 ancient cat specimens collected across Europe, North Africa, and Anatolia. These were were bones and teeth spanning more than 10,000 years of human history. From these ...

Hadrian (ruled AD 117–138) had a perfectly good villa in Rome, but he preferred to live outside the capital, and toward the ...

Out of the history books and into our homes, Melbourne Museum has announced an epic exhibition on the Roman Empire, to open ...

Archeological excavations at Jerash continue to produce new finds more than a century after the ancient city’s rediscovery.