An amateur metal detectorist discovered a buried hoard of nearly 1,500 Roman coins near Bucharest, Romania. The coins, which ...

An Ancient Roman wooden water pipe was recently uncovered in Leuven, Belgium, offering insights into Roman engineering and ...

Tourism is surging in many places around the world—swarmed national parks, throngs of visitors amassing in churches and ...

In 79 C.E., Mount Vesuvius erupted, spewing ash and small volcanic pellets known as lapilli over the city of Pompeii. Nearly ...

Archaeologists working near Măgura Călanului hill in Romania have discovered a remarkably rare cache of iron tools dating ...

Archeologists have long struggled to figure out what Roman dodecahedrons are or what purpose they were originally used for.

Archaeologists unearthed skeletal remains of four people in a well-appointed Roman home, along with signs of their efforts to ...

Craig N. McLean, JD ’93, former director of research at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, challenged the ...

In a house in the ruins of Pompeii, archeologists have discovered evidence that a family of four attempted to barricade a ...

A nearly yearlong excavation project in northern Switzerland is offering a glimpse into life in some of the Roman empire’s ...

The Catholic Church is an institution of remarkable longevity. The year marks the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of ...

Fortresses, soldier housing, and roads from Egypt’s Ptolemaic and Roman eras found in Sinai, revealing military life over ...