Airborne particles from minting coins damaged health, a new study says, and might have contributed to the Roman Empire’s ...

Discovered on accident in Rimini, Italy, this surgeon’s house and the hooks, scalpels, and mortars inside have expanded what ...

Beyond the handful of memorial libraries, many other ancient Roman public libraries were great cultural centers, including ...

This medicinal plant was so coveted, it was worth its weight in gold. But this ultimately brought its downfall.

According to a release from Museums Worcestershire, a trove of 1,368 silver and gold coins from the Iron Age and Ancient Rome were found by an anonymous metal detectorist searching an unnamed area ...

Archaeologists have discovered an ancient Greek sanctuary from the Hellenistic era inside Italy’s Pertosa-Auletta Cave.

Rome authorities this month opened a new archaeological park and museum in the shadow of the Colosseum that features an original marble map of Ancient Rome that visitors can literally walk over. The ...

Excavations in the ancient city of Nikopolis, Greece, uncovered the building of the Sebasteion (“temple of the emperors”) in ...

A cross inlaid in the floor of a library marks the spot where Indiana Jones has to dig to access the ancient catacombs of ... To find catacombs, go to Rome, home of some of the oldest and longest ...

The venerable auction house is unloading one-of-a-kind gold necklaces, rings, trinkets and more from ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt that cost far less than modern pieces from modern luxury ...