Discovered on accident in Rimini, Italy, this surgeon’s house and the hooks, scalpels, and mortars inside have expanded what we knew about ancient medicine.

An inscription on a brick links the aqueduct's construction to Gaius Valerius Constans, a second-century brickmaker from ...

Despite these differences, almost all citizens carefully observed the same rituals at dinner time – the rituals that made them Roman. The ancient Rome ... rickety homes of normal people, whose ...

Researchers have found a Roman brooch in the foundation of an Iron Age house in Scotland, but what was it doing there?

Digging into the lawn of a historic mansion in the capital city of Slovakia, archaeologists and their team of university students expected to find some ancient Roman artifacts but what emerged shocked ...

Traditionally, Roman society was extremely rigid. By the first century, however, the need for capable men to run Rome’s vast empire was slowly eroding the old social barriers. The social ...

The Britons began to live the Roman lifestyle and the Romans took on local customs. People mainly lived in small villages of wooden houses with thatched roofs. The biggest city in Roman Britain ...