Historian Bettany Hughes reveals what growing up in the ancient Roman Empire was really like – from knucklebones and wooden ...

Archaeologists uncovered Roman houses found in Rome beneath Piazza Venezia, revealing rare insights into working-class life.

You could spend a week in Rome and not even scratch the surface in terms of exploring its rich culture, history and cuisine, ...

The newly discovered trilobite may be hundreds of millions of years old, but its use 2,000 years ago as an amulet is the ...

Two thousand years ago, the Roman Army embarked on a far-flung hunt for silver. A new discovery reveals how close they came ...

What if you could walk through the bustling Forum of Ancient Rome, stand beneath the towering Colosseum, or witness the ...

Artificial intelligence has already been used to fill in gaps in ancient Roman scrolls, but a new system goes much further.

Napoleon is relatively unusual in western history for aligning himself with the brutal Hannibal – not Hannibal’s Roman enemy, ...

It is the largest ancient amphitheatre ever built, and is still the largest standing amphitheatre in the world, despite its ...

Around 1,500 Latin inscriptions are discovered every year, offering an invaluable view into the daily life of ancient ...

The great mass of waters killed many thousands of people by drowning … the lifeless bodies of shipwrecked persons lay ...

Archaeologists have discovered new evidence pointing to the reoccupation of Pompeii following the 79 AD eruption of Mount ...