Experts say they hope that pottery found in the same soil layers as the footwear could help them solve the mystery.

Roman salting plants processed fish so thoroughly that researchers struggle to identify the species once used in ancient ...

Eight XXL leather shoes have been recovered from Magna, a Roman-era fort along Hadrian's Wall. Archaeologists excavating a ...

Archaeologists have discovered four bronze discs in a 1,900-year-old Roman grave in central Israel. The artifacts depict ...

The roar of the arena crowd, the bustle of the Roman forum, the grand temples, the Roman army in red with glistening shields ...

Since the time of ancient Rome and Greece, people have dealt with love, this difficult emotion, in all its glory and calamity ...

Seek your lover in the daytime, says Ovid. Be careful of the night. You won't choose the right person if you're drunk. And ...

From seasonal intimacy schedules to open-air nudity, ancient Greco-Roman thinkers had no shortage of theories on how to stay ...

Archaeologists reported finding the first "exceptionally large shoe" on May 21 and have continued to discover more since then ...

A Roman settlement from the Iron Age has been found after a person using a metal detector discovered two rare swords near a ...

A stash of "unusually large" 2,000-year-old shoes dug up at a Roman site in northern England has left archaeologists ...