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 ...

Archaeologists discovered rare Roman relics at Bremenium Fort in northern England, including 2,000-year-old preserved fruit, ...

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

Pieces once traded during the Greek and Roman eras or salvaged from Spanish shipwrecks continue to be popular with artisans ...

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.

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

From the Minoan royal road to the Ridgeway, ancient roads still exist today showing how past civilizations built networks ...

Follow Tristan Hughes as he is given exclusive access to the National Museum of Scotland for a look at one of Britain’s most ...

A newly discovered monumental basin in Gabii hints at how early Romans experimented with city planning long before Rome’s own layers were buried. In the center of the ancient city of Gabii, just 11 ...