Concrete was the foundation of the ancient Roman empire. It enabled Rome's storied architectural revolution as well as the ...

From the iconic Colosseum in Rome to Hadrian’s Wall all the way in England, there’s one question most people must ask ...

Located in western Tunisia, the plants operated between the third and sixth centuries and likely helped supply precious olive ...

A digital atlas of ancient Rome’s highways and byways reveals a road network that was more extensive than thought.

While archaeologists have previously documented a few similar examples of ancient Roman pet monkeys elsewhere, they ...

Isotopic analysis confirmed that the workers in Pompeii relied on hot-mixing when making their concrete. Samples from the ...

On the market for $26 million, Villa d'Autore on the Via Appia Antica was once owned by the Italian cinema icon and her ...

We explore the stunning survivals of Roman Naples, where ancient theaters are buried under city streets, and return to Rome to uncover the true origins of two iconic churches. One is a princess's tomb ...

Roman concrete is pretty amazing stuff. It's among the main reasons we know so much about Roman architecture today. So many ...

A construction site dating back nearly 2,000 years to the putative demise of Pompeii in 79 CE has revealed new evidence for ...

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

Ancient Roman ideas of privacy differed radically from our own, and their communal toilets reveal a mindset almost impossible ...