A team from Heidelberg University excavating in Iraq made a spectacular find: In the throne room of the North Palace of King ...

Archaeologists working near Măgura Călanului hill in Romania have discovered a remarkably rare cache of iron tools dating ...

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The seafarer peoples of the past who mastered the oceans were crucial in laying the foundations upon which civilizations were ...

Rocks from Greenland found on Iceland's west coast could link the late Roman Empire's fall to a spell of sudden climate change. But historians say that the real story is likely much more complicated.

ROME, April 24 — In Rome’s Colosseum and other amphitheaters in cities scattered across the sprawling ancient Roman Empire, gladiatorial spectacles were not merely human-versus-human affairs.

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An ancient Roman mosaic depicting a scene of two lions attacking a boar, is on display at the El Jem archaeological museum in El Jem, Tunisia, December, 2011. REUTERS/Will Dunham A puncture injury ...

In fact, it was the site of a sprawling Roman horse cemetery in the second century C.E. Positioned near an ancient Roman cavalry fort, the cemetery was largely a disposal ground for horses who’d died ...

For one resident of the ancient Roman Empire, who met a violent demise around 1,800 years ago, archaeologists have found the first record of its kind scarred into his bones: he was mauled by a lion, ...