In different passage, Aulus tells us about some bookstalls he came across when he arrived by ship at the port of Brundisium ...
The discovery of the helmet of Miltiades, who fought in the Battle of Marathon, is one of the most important archaeological ...
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Archaeologists found a Roman mosaic in Britain that tells a lost version of the Trojan War
In the summer of 2020, during Britain’s COVID lockdown, Jim Irvine noticed unfamiliar pottery scattered across his family’s ...
When a relative died, I was given an extraordinary artifact—and a head-spinning journey down a 25-year ethical rabbit hole.
It probably sucked to be a Roman soldier guarding Hadrian’s Wall circa the third century CE. W.H. Auden imagined the likely ...
The roughly 11,000 inscriptions preserved by Mount Vesuvius' eruption in 79 C.E. offer a glimpse into everyday life in the ...
Travel throughout much of Europe today and you’ll find traces of the Roman Empire everywhere. Amphitheaters, aqueducts, walls, bridges, forts and other structures built centuries ago are still ...
MIT researchers have identified the methods behind the remarkable longevity of Roman concrete, confirming self-healing properties and a unique hot-mixing process through studies at a preserved ...
A construction site dating back nearly 2,000 years to the putative demise of Pompeii in 79 CE has revealed new evidence for the secret behind Ancient Rome's ultra-durable concrete. Last year, from ...
Archaeologists have uncovered three 1,700-year-old ceramic storage jugs full of Roman coins in a village in northeastern France. The jugs, also known as amphorae, were discovered during excavations of ...
Back in 2023, we reported on MIT scientists’ conclusion that the ancient Romans employed “hot mixing” with quicklime, among other strategies, to make their famous concrete, giving the material ...
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