In the same year as America’s founding, Edward Gibbon wrote “Decline and Fall.” 250 years later, it still holds lessons for ...
Excavators working in Pompeii’s Regio IX district have documented a Roman construction site that was still active when Mount ...
A recent archaeological investigation in southwestern Spain has uncovered an astonishingly well-preserved collection of esparto grass sandals. Discovered in the ancient mining settlement of Urium, ...
An ancient sample shows calcite threading through the material’s cracks and pores, with possible lessons for making modern ...
There's a bit of a historical mystery surrounding the star Theta Eridani. Ptolemy in the second century A.D. and al-Sufi in A ...
A large cemetery containing the lavishly adorned remains of unidentified high-status individuals dating from around 2,000 ...
Long-term carbonate mineralization helped preserve a 2nd-century Roman concrete sample from Hadrian’s Villa by forming ...
Long before electricity, Roman engineers embedded reflective marble into Pompeii's basalt roads to safely guide nighttime ...
Rome in its heyday would have been a sight to behold. Home to a million people, the city was one of the great cultural ...
Archaeologists excavating the ruins of Heraclea Sintica found an 1,800-year-old bronze lithulkos, a tool used to remove ...