The excavations taking place in the Roman city, buried by the eruption of Vesuvius, reflect the beauty and sophistication of ...

In the ancient city of Pompeii, a small house filled with elaborate frescos was discovered. Its decorations feature ...

The film follows the son of Russell Crowe’s Maximus who has been living under a new identity to escape Roman politics.

New DNA evidence from Pompeii’s body casts reveals that traditional assumptions about residents’ relationships and origins were often incorrect, showing instead a diverse population with roots in the ...

According to accounts of ancient Roman writers, the following year, once Agrippina was confident Nero’s succession was assured, she had Claudius poisoned. The ancient authors who depicted ...

Ancient shipwrecks have given scientists fresh insights into why the final remnants of the Roman Empire collapsed - nearly ...

Pottery has long been used to date archaeological sites but previously held ideas about styles associated with the iron age ...

A new study has shattered historians' long-held assumptions about some of the people who died in Mount Vesuvius' eruption in ...

From emperors and conspiracies to gladiatorial games and daily life—see how well you know the empire that shaped the ancient ...

A small town in the Aragón region of Spain was saved from recent floods that killed more than 200 by an ancient Roman dam. Almonacid de la Cuba, a small town in the province of Zaragoza, Aragón in ...

More than a century ago, the scientist Alfred Wegener proposed the notion of an ancient supercontinent, which he named Pangaea (sometimes spelled Pangea), after putting together several lines of ...