Excavations of an ancient construction site in Pompeii have revealed the process of how Romans mixed their self-healing concrete.

Part station, part museum, two new subway stops in Rome offer riders the chance to see ancient artifacts unearthed in digging ...

Chickens are one of the most common animals on earth. Relatives of the dinosaurs still around today, these birds have spread ...

Archaeologists uncovered a Pompeii project that reveals how ancient Romans used hot-mixing technology to create durable ...

They carved glass so delicate one wrong move would shatter months of work. They engraved symbols into cups destined for emperors. They created objects so valuable that Romans paid to repair broken ...

Italian archaeologists recently discovered an ancient Roman bathhouse submerged underwater – and it may have belonged to Rome’s greatest orator. The Campi Flegrei Archaeological Park, located in ...

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

The ancient Romans loved their birds. They rated owls as omens, valued geese as guards, kept chickens for divination, and raised peafowl for food. As for the thrush, a plumb avian of the passerine ...

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 ...

Much of ancient Rome, of course, "remains hidden under visitors' feet," said Tony Perrottet in Smithsonian. Visit the Pantheon or the Colosseum and you'll notice that the buildings' foundations sit ...