Rocks on Iceland beaches confirm the Late Antique Little Ice Age, caused by volcanic eruptions, precipitated the fall of the Roman Empire.

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

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

"Veni, vidi, vici," or "I came, I saw, I conquered," is a phrase popularly attributed to Julius Caesar — but why did the ...

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

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

Thanks to radiocarbon dating, archaeologists have finally been able to date an ancient boomerang first found 40 years ago.

The ancient Greek physician and botanist Dioscorides is considered by many to be the father of pharmacology for authoring De ...

Ancient Rome was a rigidly hierarchical society where the ruling elite stigmatized everyone who had to work with their hands. Yet Roman workers still found ways to resist exploitation through strikes ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers, including archaeologists, have analyzed the DNA of fish remains from Roman fish ...

World of the Book: Celebrating 20 Years will be exhibited until 17 May 2026, State Library Victoria, Dome Galleries, Level 4; ...

Swiss archaeologists recently announced the discovery of an Ancient Roman building after a pedestrian alerted authorities to peculiar stones near a highway construction site.