DNA analysis, and forensic sculpture helped experts recreate people who lived near the ancient Roman frontier city of ...

Myf Warhurst, voiceover： Thousands of years ago, on the continent of Europe, people lived their everyday lives in one of the ...

A new exhibition in Hungary brings ancient residents of the Roman frontier city of Aquincum to life with detailed facial ...

Sometime around 100 AD, the Roman lawyer and aristocrat Pliny sent a letter to his third wife, Calpurnia – who was staying in a different part of Italy – to express how much he loved and missed her: I ...

Vass said archaeological discoveries often end up as stored artifacts, with little attention paid to the people behind them.

Ancient Rome didn’t just dominate the ancient world — it pioneered extreme urban living. At its peak, between 800,000 and 1.2 million people lived within a footprint of just 24 km², giving Rome a ...

ROME, Dec 5 (Reuters) - While slaves in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii were considered no more than "speaking tools", some received better food than ordinary people, Italy's culture ministry said ...

Nearly 2,000 years ago, ancient Romans enjoyed a variety of snacks when attending events at the Colosseum. Recent archaeological findings have uncovered remnants of these foods, and interestingly, ...

This edition of History In A Nutshell travels back to antiquity; to some of the earliest days of Western Civilization: Ancient Rome! This expose briefly covers the rise and fall of Rome, including: ...

This article originally appeared in The Conversation. If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be like? You don’t just have to imagine it. The ancient Roman writer Aulus ...