A group of young student archaeologists were excavating the Huerta de Otero site in Mérida, Spain when they made a stunning discovery: an elaborate Roman mosaic depicting the mythological gorgon ...

Students and archaeologists located temporary Roman military camp near Hoog Buurlo beyond ancient empire’s northern frontier, university said and photos show.

A team of archaeologists from OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH and the University of Salzburg discovered three exceptionally well-preserved Roman mosaics during the excavations of a building complex of more than ...

Volunteers recently unearthed an ancient depiction of a Roman goddess while digging near a historic British landmark. The sandstone carving was found at Vindolanda, a fort in Northumberland, near ...

A team of archaeologists has successfully identified the location of the ancient city of Tharais, a Byzantine site represented in the famous Madaba Map Mosaic.. The discovery, made in the northwest of ...

The auction also includes a number of other ancient treasures such as Roman Mosaic flooring, a Roman-Egyptian painted portrait, and a Viking Iron silver and laten inlaid sword.

A 1,600-year-old Byzantine mosaic from a Christian monastery in Israel, featuring 55 medallions with hunting scenes and mythological characters, was recently put on public display.

IF YOU WANTED to read an ancient Roman scroll, you might reach for a dictionary, and perhaps a magnifying glass. You would probably not think of using a particle accelerator. But that is what is ...

Such virtual unrolling is a two-stage process pioneered by W. Brent Seales, a computer scientist at the University of Kentucky. IF YOU WANTED to read an ancient Roman scroll, you might reach for a ...

In 1966, archaeologists discovered a 7,000-square-foot Roman home. It turns out it was a small part of a 43,000-square-foot villa. Archaeologists Thought They Found an Ancient Roman Home.