Ancient Roman farms produced far more than grain, relying on mixed cultivation, orchards, and careful land management to ...

In 328 BC, Rome founded the colony of Fregellae in southern Latium (Italy), at a strategic crossroads of roads and rivers.

An academic article published in 2025 in the prestigious journal Dialogues d’Histoire Ancienne by researcher Jorge Barbero Barroso, from the Autonomous University of Madrid, sheds a fascinating and ...

The life of Gaius Cornelius Gallus (ca. 70–27 BCE) shows what happened to politicians in ancient Rome who fell out of favor with the ruler ...

French researchers are investigating what they believe could be the pathway of long-lost Roman canal constructed over 2,000 years ago. This waterway, known as the Marius Canal, was an engineering feat ...

New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world. Early Roman Empire depiction of a Freedman and Freedwoman, 30-15 BCE. British Museum, London, UK.

Vivid scenes of battlefield decapitations and female prisoners dragged off by their hair, carved into the 1,840-year-old marble Column of Marcus Aurelius towering over central Rome, are being brought ...

Archaeologists working at an excavation site in Pompeii have uncovered new evidence that helps explain why ancient Roman buildings have lasted for thousands of years. The discovery points to a special ...

Sediments from a Roman latrine at Vindolanda show soldiers were infected with multiple intestinal parasites, including roundworm, whipworm, and Giardia — the first time Giardia has been identified in ...

Archaeologists excavating the ancient Roman city of Gabii have uncovered a massive stone-lined basin that may represent one of Rome’s earliest monumental civic structures. Its central placement hints ...

The cultural and scientific revolutions that define the Renaissance were kickstarted in large part by Europe’s rediscovery of lost Roman sculpture. Inspiring the likes of Raphael, Donatello, ...

Royal Road of Knossos, Crete. Credit: Warren LeMay / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 Ancient roads shaped the movement of goods, people, and ideas long before modern transportation existed. Many of these routes ...