As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and scientists now say those roads stretched 50% longer than previously ...

Ancient Greek sculptor Polykleitos set the standard of beauty and harmony in statues with his groundbreaking Canon of ...

The new director of Rome’s Colosseum, has rejected reports that the ancient site will host electronic dance music parties.

Ancient Roman gladiators are often imagined as chiselled, bronzed heroes of the arena, akin to today’s top athletes. But the ...

Researchers created Itiner-e, a "Google Maps for Roman Roads," charting the network that linked the expansive ancient empire.

Digging into the dry soil of a field in southern Germany, archaeologists hit some rocks and painstakingly unearthed a massive stone structure. They’d expected to find something at this site — but what ...

Her exhibition at NIKA Project Space in Paris turns impermanence into an act of creation and disappearance into a quiet form ...

Missouri archaeologists unearthed a “massive” 2,200-year-old Roman water basin near Rome, Italy, a university said and photos show. Photo from Marcello Mogetta via the University of Missouri On the ...

Stories of ancient Roman artifacts and ruins being dug up in back gardens or disrupting construction projects are common. It seems that a British pensioner can hardly dig a new plot for potatoes, nor ...

From prehistoric burials to overcrowded Victorian churchyards, this is what our treatment of the dead throughout history says about the living ...

Daniella Santoro, a PhD candidate at Tulane University, never expected to find an ancient Roman gravestone in her backyard, but that’s exactly what happened one day in March as her husband was doing ...