The tomb and its personal artifacts are some of the first true pieces of evidence of an early Roman presence in the area. The ...

While archaeologists have previously documented a few similar examples of ancient Roman pet monkeys elsewhere, they ...

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Berenike was an isolated, windswept outpost. It linked the Roman Empire to the trade routes of India, Arabia, and East Africa ...

Isotopic analysis confirmed that the workers in Pompeii relied on hot-mixing when making their concrete. Samples from the ...

Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.

There were many ways in which the elites of ancient Roman society flaunted their wealth. They built vast villas, sponsored ...

Pompeii Archeological Park site map, with showing where the ancient building site is located, with colour coded piles of raw construction materials (right): purple: debris; green: piles of dry ...

Italian authorities said on Friday they had arrested 34 "tomb raiders" suspected of looting treasures from archaeological ...

The Independent reports that archaeologists have discovered infant skeletons from the Roman period bearing significant "negative health markers," pointing to widespread suffering among urban ...

Christian archaeology does not simply look at the past, he wrote, but it also speaks to all people in the present day.

The operation saw nine people placed in pre-trial detention and 14 under house arrest in Sicily alone. Charges levied against ...