Hygienic conditions were poor in the city's older bathing facilities, a new study reveals. The analysis sheds light on ...

Research uncovers how Pompeii’s early baths were unhygienic and how Roman water systems improved cleanliness but added new health risks.

Pompeii is well known as an iconic Roman city. But for much of its early history, it wasn’t Roman at all. It belonged to the ...

A 2026 PNAS study reveals Pompeii's pre-Roman Republican Baths were heavily contaminated with human waste and rarely ...

Depictions of the eccentricities of Roman leaders were (and remain) interesting. But such leaders were often also dangerous, ...

Before the Romans captured Pompeii, the famous town was run by the Samnite people – and a dip in their public baths might ...

Archaeologists uncovered the 2,000-year-old Flaccus tomb at Heerlen's Raadhuisplein during a town-square excavation.

A rare Roman-era marble bathtub and statue fragment were recently discovered in ancient Ephesus, Turkey, where Paul the ...

Who were you in Ancient Rome? What was your life like? Strolling down the Via Appia, on your way to the Forum, would you inspect the new range of togas at the shops, pay a tribute to your favorite god ...

And just like that—for the final time this season—it's game week! The Wake Forest Demon Deacons (8–4, 4–4 ACC) make the short trip to Charlotte, NC to battle the Mississippi State Bulldogs (5–7, 1–7 ...

Mosaic in the villa of the ancient Greek fisherman. Credit: DHA Phainos was the most famous fisherman of his time who lived in the 2nd century AD in the ancient Greek city of Halicarnassus. His villa, ...

A remarkable 2,000-year-old Roman stele featuring an intricately carved eagle clutching a wreath has been discovered in the ancient city of Manbij, Syria. The black basalt funerary monument, adorned ...