The ancient Romans are credited with building road networks, but a new digital atlas shows these stretched 50 per cent longer than previously estimated. The research published recently is a new update ...

Excavations of an ancient construction site in Pompeii have revealed the process of how Romans mixed their self-healing concrete.

Scientists at U.K.-based DeepMind, the Google LLC laboratory that specializes in advanced artificial intelligence, have developed a solution to decipher ancient Roman texts that are often damaged and ...

Hundreds of weapons from the Roman era have been unearthed in a park in a city located in southeastern France. These findings are thought to be remnants of the Battle of Lyon, which occurred on ...

For the first time, archaeologists have discovered wooden defenses surrounding an ancient Roman military base. The fence topped with sharpened wooden stakes, akin to today’s barbed wire, is the kind ...

A supposed "backwater" of the Roman Empire is challenging traditional assumptions about the ancient civilization's decline, according to a research project that has lasted more than a decade. For 13 ...

You've probably heard it before: ancient Romans used urine to clean their teeth. It's one of those historical "facts" that gets repeated at dinner parties, mentioned in trivia games, and spread across ...

A seemingly simple question opens up difficult debates about ancient Roman beauty ideals and social hierarchy, and reveals ...

Ever wondered where the word Calendar comes from? Explore the fascinating history of timekeeping, from Ancient Rome’s Kalends ...

The copper alloy sitella was discovered amid the charred remains of a structure destroyed by fire around the late third century AD at Carthago Nova, the ancient Roman name for modern Cartagena, ...