There are more than 50 theories for the function of this 12-sided, pentagonal-faced bronze object — but archaeologists have ...

In the 6th century BCE, the Greek alphabet used 24 letters. To make numbers, the Greeks added three more symbols ( accounts differ as to whether these were resurrected older letters or newly designed ...

Experts in London have spent three months piecing together the shattered remains of Roman artworks, revealing luxurious frescoes not seen for more than 1,800 years.

Bodies, potentially decaying, were a more common sight in ancient Rome than now. Suetonius, writing in the first century CE, ...

Archaeologists in Turkey uncovered a set of iron weights shaped like ancient Greek letters, in the ruins of the Greco-Roman ...

The thousands of fragments once formed an enormous fresco that decorated around 20 walls in a building in central London.

Roman salting plants processed fish so thoroughly that researchers struggle to identify the species once used in ancient ...

Some ancient Greek and Roman philosophers supported vegetarianism. Killing animals for pleasure causes people to develop the ...

Historical errors in ancient king’s love letter stumped researchers — until now A letter from King Otto I of Germany to his wife Queen Edith, long thought to contain historical errors, has ...

Was Caligula misunderstood? New research shows the Roman emperor likely knew more about medicinal plants than historians once ...

There exists a strong link in modern thinking between letter collections and biographical or historical narration. Many ancient letter collections have been rearranged by modern editors along ...