Those working for the Ahnenerbe project set out to prove that the Aryan race was descended from Nordic gods, and spent vast ...

Ancient Rome is often seen as synonymous with culinary excess. Images of exotic – even orgiastic – feasts perpetuate its reputation for strangeness and decadence. It may come as no surprise, therefore ...

This is evident by the fact that there is evidence that the sculptures had perfumes and other fragrances applied to them. Dr.

The findings, published in the journal Antiquity, provide the first conclusive chemical evidence that tin from Cornwall and ...

Archaeologists say the muddy soil in the area preserved the artifact, which likely dates to between the second and third centuries C.E.

The seafarer peoples of the past who mastered the oceans were crucial in laying the foundations upon which civilizations were ...

A sealed Herculaneum scroll yields its secrets—revealing a lost philosophical treatise by Philodemus through virtual ...

A charred scroll unearthed at Herculaneum has been revealed to contain a work by the Greek philosopher Philodemus.

Archaeologists excavating an ancient Roman settlement in the United Kingdom found an oven used for making construction materials, photos show. Photo from Cotswold Archaeology Sifting through the ...

The nearly 2,000-year-old example of Roman engineering is covered in penile carvings, thanks to the ancient citizens and soldiers leaving their marks, the Vindolanda Charitable Trust said.