When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

According to the ancient notes ... few people were Roman citizens. “The document provides rare and highly interesting evidence for the slave trade in this part of the empire,” said Dennis ...

However, researchers have uncovered what they believe to be a massive subterranean gold deposit, potentially the largest of ...

In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the ...

And the Domus ... Rome’s most opulent monuments were part of the urban fabric, with residences squeezed onto the flanks of even the sacred Campidoglio; it was Mussolini who isolated the ancient ...

Archaeologists have made two extraordinary discoveries in the Italian town of Agrigento on Sicily's southwest coast. During ...

Spanish archaeologists unearthed over 4,000 fragments of wall paintings that once decorated the Roman villa of Barberes Sud ...

We're living in a period where the gap between rich and poor is dramatic, and it's continuing to widen. But inequality is nothing new. In a new study researchers compared house size distributions from ...

Two art restorers were putting the final touches on a months-long restoration of the tomb of Pope Urban VIII, who in 1626 ...

Pope Francis surprises art restorers at St Peter's Basilica, thanking them for their work during his recovery.

Most ancient ... of these Roman ancient fish sauces. Not only did the Romans consume at least two distinct kinds of garum, but factories in North Africa, Brittany, Spain and other parts of the ...