The team excavating in the west Nile Delta have discovered a necropolis and industrial complex dating from the Roman Period.

What did Roman houses look like, and how did they vary depending on a person's social status? Even with some considerable ...

Cold snaps may have ushered in devastating pandemics for ancient Romans that killed countless people, new research finds. The new study links periods of climate variation with major pandemics and ...

Archaeologists discovered a highly public Roman mound tomb in Bavaria, a rare find for the area. The somewhat flashy location of the tomb along a highly trafficked road showed the importance of the ...

A groundbreaking study has uncovered the first physical evidence of human-animal gladiatorial combat in the Roman period. The research presents compelling skeletal evidence of a human victim attacked ...

Small, spoon-shaped objects found on the end of warriors’ belts at archaeological sites across northern Europe could have been used to dispense stimulants before battle, a new study published in De ...

LONDON — As the group of amateur archaeologists sifted through tiles, animal teeth and pottery fragments buried within an ancient Roman pit in eastern England, one of them encountered something ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered the remains of a remarkably well-preserved dog from ancient Rome – and the discovery highlights the prevalence of ritual sacrifice in antiquity. The excavation ...