Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, don't often think to look beyond the city walls ...

A marble statue of a man, dressed in a toga and holding a scroll, was found by construction workers in the city of Varna, previously the ancient city of Odessa, with very little damage.

The Roman historian Suetonius notes that the emperor Augustus wore four tunics and a heavy toga in the winter, along with a wool chest protector, an undershirt, and wraps for his shins and thighs.

This 1,800-year-old mosaic, featuring toga-wearing men, was recently unearthed in Israel. Reuters Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a rare multicolored Roman mosaic featuring three toga ...

Here are seven unusual ancient Roman superstitions and what they may have meant. 1. Carrying a bride over the threshold A happy husband carrying his new wife over the threshold.

The ‘Kneeling Barbarian’ sculpture from the Palatine Hill in Rome, dates to the first century CE, made of pavonazzo marble and nero antico, in the Naples National Archaeological Museum (image ...