The ancient scroll, which looks like a lump of charcoal, was charred by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD. It's ...

How did the Ancient Romans manage clean water and waste disposal so effectively? Their groundbreaking sanitation system set the standard for future civilizations. Explore how it worked!

In 2024, it was announced that the oldest wine ever discovered in liquid form had been found in Spain, but how did this ...

In Padula, Campania, the discovery of nineteen ancient tombs has uncovered valuable artifacts, including a rare diobol coin ...

An rare discovery in northern Luxembourg has given historians a fresh glimpse into the final years of the Western Roman ...

This week, explore decoded words from charred ancient scrolls, meet heroic frog daddies, see Grand Canyon-size lunar features ...

In Italy, it is not uncommon to find streets and neighborhoods named Cincinnatus, but even more familiar is the name of a ...

Researchers have found the oldest known evidence of lead pollution dating to around 5,200 years ago in ancient Greece ...

It was used also in ancient Rome, with Romans calling it caeruleum. The ingot found at the Domus Aurea was the star of the discovery, which also included the finding of yellow ochre pigments in ...

The ruins of Ptolemais are in the modern-day city of Tolmeita, Libya. The country sits along the Mediterranean Sea in North Africa and borders Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Niger, Sudan and Tunisia. Google ...

Amateur archaeologists discovered a gold coin in a field, leading to a full-fledged search that revealed 141 Roman-era gold coins ... to study in its entirety an ancient monetary deposit in ...