In this new study, a team analyzed the genomes of 70 ancient cats, dating back over the last 11,000 years (from about 9000 BCE to 19th century CE). The genomes were taken from bones found in ...

A rare example of a sun hat from late Roman Egypt that was stitched together from fabrics in five colors.

Archaeologists excavating the remains of a Roman city in Portugal have discovered a rare bronze inkwell filled with the ...

A compelling creation myth was a must for every ancient civilisation, but Rome decided that one just wasn’t enough. In myth ...

The hat lay flattened and moth-eaten for more than a century in a museum box. Now, the rare 2,000-year-old headpiece (made ...

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

Crucially, these findings contradict a long-standing theory that domestication in Europe occurred much earlier – some 6,000 ...

During the age of emperors, Roman sculpture was of artistic, religious, and political importance, and often took on epic ...

Philopoemen was the most skilled general of the Achaean League. He defeated Sparta and propelled the league to prominence in ...

Excavations at Bremenium Fort, in northern England, have yielded an incredibly well-preserved fruit thought to be a plum, ...

Several lines of evidence, including historical records and artistic depictions, suggest that female gladiators did exist in the Roman Empire, but they were much rarer than their male counterparts.