Archaeologists in northern Britain discovered 13-inch shoes at the ancient Roman Magna Fort, raising questions about the towering soldiers who defended the empire.

Some ancient Greek and Roman philosophers supported vegetarianism. Killing animals for pleasure causes people to develop the ...

Was Caligula misunderstood? New research shows the Roman emperor likely knew more about medicinal plants than historians once believed ...

The thousands of fragments once formed an enormous fresco that decorated around 20 walls in a building in central London.

EDUCATION to an ordinary person means no more than the process of passing across and imbibing or learning the practices, ways of life and arts of one’s fore-bearers usually orally or through ...

The story of the human race is a story of technology. One of our ancestors created fire and passed that knowledge along to ...

A common whiff in the Roman city would have come from the animals and the waste they created. Roman bakeries frequently used ...

The underground cemeteries, nearly 2,000 years old, hold some of the earliest evidence of Christian faith, belief in the ...

Once chaotic and essential, Rome’s Suburra lay just below the Forum. Home to artisans, taverns, and intrigue, it shaped the ...

Researchers from Mainz, Oxford, and Innsbruck have used carbonate fragments to unravel the complex history of the Arles ...