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 ...

We tend to think about people in the past as more prudish and strict about sex and gender. But really people have been experimenting with sex and gender for as long as humans have existed. In the ...

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 ...

Papyri from the Roman Empire provide authentic insight into how Christians in antiquity imagined Joseph and Mary's ...

In the 18th and 19th centuries, biblical scholars interested in parallels between ancient religious belief systems argued ...

A trove of bronze statues that archeologists say could rewrite the history of Italy's transition to the Roman Empire have been discovered in an ancient Tuscan thermal spring. Italy's Ministry of ...

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 ...