The hat lay flattened and moth-eaten for more than a century in a museum box. Now, the rare 2,000-year-old headpiece (made ...

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

The sarcophagus was found among abandoned houses in a quarter of Aquincum that had been vacated in the 3rd century and later repurposed as a burial ground. Nearby discoveries included a Roman aqueduct ...

Archeological excavations at Jerash continue to produce new finds more than a century after the ancient city’s rediscovery.

Archaeologists reveal that a new digital atlas shows Roman road network was 50% larger than known, mapping 186,000 miles across Europe, Africa and the Middle East using satellite imagery.

A single human skull uncovered in Spain revealed the Roman army’s assertion of dominance over their rivals in the first century B.C.The 2020 discovery of the skull was recently published in the ...

Archaeologists in Budapest have opened a sealed Roman limestone coffin that had rested undisturbed for roughly 1,700 years, ...

Untouched by looters and sealed for centuries, the sarcophagus was found with its stone lid still fixed in place, secured by ...

In what archaeologists are hailing “an unprecedented discovery” for the region, the remains of a set of Gallo-Roman buildings—including what might be a funerary monument—have been excavated in a ...

During restorations at the Palace of Westminster in London, excavations have revealed a trove of historic objects, the oldest ...

The Cantabrian Wars (29-16 BC) represented Rome's final push to subjugate the last independent Celtic peoples in western continental Europe. The conflicts were so challenging that Augustus himself ...

From its heart in Italy across its many thousands of miles, the Roman Empire was built and maintained by slaves. Some were born enslaved, the sons and daughters of enslaved mothers. Others were ...