When some ancient Romans were feeling a little under the weather, they were treated with human feces. While this practice was mentioned in ancient Greco-Roman medical texts by figures such as Pliny ...
Ancient Rome’s reputation for bad emperors partly rests on hostile sources written after the fact – and Domitian may be the ...
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2,400-year-old Hercules shrine and elite tombs discovered outside ancient Rome's walls
Archaeologists have unearthed tombs and a shrine dedicated to Hercules from the time of the Roman Republic.
The Roman-era poison maker Locusta allegedly played a part in the deaths of Emperor Claudius and his son Britannicus. What do we know about her life story?
While the tombs and the shrine were found within the modern city's boundaries, they would have been situated outside the ...
Archaeologists think the newly discovered artifacts remained at the production site because they were deemed unusable. Large numbers of completed whetstones may have supplied other parts of the Roman ...
About 2,000 years ago, life in the Roman town of Pompeii—located in modern-day Italy—looked a lot like life anywhere else.
Archaeologists are doing excavation work along the A66 ahead of plans to widen the road.
You don’t need a time machine or a transatlantic flight to step inside ancient Rome ’s most infamous arena. Starting on ...
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