One of the best-preserved ancient Roman homes on the Palatine Hill is opening to the public for the first time ...
One of ancient Rome’s finest residences, the House of the Griffins, is opening to the public on March 3—with a digital ...
The Roman Empire is usually remembered for roads, armies, and emperors, but its technology went far beyond that. Ancient ...
Think ancient civilizations were primitive? The evidence suggests otherwise. From computers that tracked celestial events to concrete that grows stronger with age, our ancestors created technologies ...
On Wednesday, Nov. 5, University of Massachusetts classics lecturer Joseph Wilson took the students in his course, Technology in the Ancient World, to the glassblowing laboratory of Sally Prasch. The ...
ROME — Vivid scenes of battlefield decapitations and female prisoners dragged off by their hair, carved into the 1,840-year-old marble Column of Marcus Aurelius towering over central Rome, are being ...
As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and those roads stretched 50% longer than previously known, according to a new digital atlas published Thursday. The last major atlas of ancient Roman ...
Ancient Roman concrete, which was used to build aqueducts, bridges, and buildings across the empire, has endured for over two thousand years. In a study publishing July 25 in the Cell Press journal ...
New research reveals ancient Roman wine was more complex and flavorful than previously thought. Studies of large clay jars, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Arch of Caligula at the archaeological site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman city destroyed by Mount Vesuvius' eruption in AD 79.