NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy ...
Sephardi Jews flourished for centuries in Muslim Spain and Portugal, creating a luminous culture of poetry, science, and ...
Archaeologists in Hungary have opened a sealed Roman coffin that had not been disturbed for roughly 1,700 years, revealing a ...
The discovery of a single grave in a Dutch town has pushed the story of Rome’s northern frontier into sharper focus than any ...
New research suggests the Romans used a method known as "hot mixing" to produce self-healing concrete, which allowed them to ...
Unearthed off the coast of Alexandria, the vessel may have once measured 115 feet long. Experts think it would have held a ...
The Independent reports that archaeologists have discovered infant skeletons from the Roman period bearing significant "negative health markers," pointing to widespread suffering among urban ...
Berenike was an isolated, windswept outpost. It linked the Roman Empire to the trade routes of India, Arabia, and East Africa ...
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An intricate system of roads connected the furthest reaches of the Roman Empire, which at its height in the 2nd century CE spanned modern-day Algeria, Egypt, Turkey and England. A collaboration ...
A digital atlas of ancient Rome’s highways and byways reveals a road network that was more extensive than thought.
Throughout history, there have been numerous cities that have been washed away due to natural disasters or changing landscapes. And although these cities do not exist it anymore, they've nonetheless ...