Why so many Roman coin hoards end up being buried and never found has baffled archaeologists for decades. A major new study has shown that the non-recovery of these hoarded treasures was caused by ...
A sealed late Roman sarcophagus discovered in Cavtat, Croatia, has given archaeologists a rare chance to study a burial site ...
Archaeologists in the Dutch city of Nijmegen have made an extraordinary discovery: the largest Roman bathhouse complex ever found in the Netherlands. Unearthed in the Waalfront district, an area ...
Dead men do, in fact, tell tales. A group of researchers in an international program called HistoGenes that includes Stony Brook Associate Professor Krishna Veeramah recently published a study that ...
Archaeologists working with the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt have recently discovered the remains of a Roman ...
Excavations in the ancient Greek and Roman city of Agrigento, Italy, uncovered an early Christian worship site, ritual burials, and mosaics.
Scientists have fully decoded a 2,000-year-old carbonized Roman scroll without opening it, revealing lost philosophical ...
After nearly seven decades of excavation, the legendary ancient city of Sardis has become a UNESCO World Heritage Site, ...
Human and animal remains unearthed in Egypt's Nile Delta reveal changing funerary practices over some 600 years, and the ...
The lead curse tablet was discovered in a city square in the Netherlands and recently deciphered by researchers in Germany ...
Researchers have unlocked the meaning behind a 1,900-year-old Roman curse tablet unearthed among the ruins of Coriovallum in ...
A routine nature reserve project in the Netherlands turned up 3,000+ artifacts, including a gleaming 4th-century gold ring ...