Archaeologists excavating a 1,800-year-old pet cemetery in Berenike uncovered the writings of soldiers and other artifacts, photos show. Photo from M. Osypińska via Institute of Archaeology of the ...

Archaeologists have found a collection of ancient letters written on papyrus seemingly featuring correspondence between Roman military commanders in an "extremely rare" discovery. The documents were ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have uncovered a lost letter from Roman Emperor Caracalla embedded in a 1950s farmhouse in Burdur province.

A letter written by a Roman emperor helped lead a team of archaeologists to an ancient temple that "adds significant insights into the social changes" from pagan beliefs to Christianity in the Roman ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to student Rob Stephan of the University of Michigan about a stash of ancient papyrus manuscripts he uncovered in a basement there. Among them were letters home from a Roman ...

Ghosts stories appear in several surviving texts from ancient Rome. What do they reveal about the people who told them?

Excavated at the Medieval hilltop city were three inner walls of what was a monumental structure, likely an ancient pagan temple, underneath a parking lot. Their whereabouts were pinpointed by Douglas ...