When Giovanni Torlonia and his son Alessandro were building the collection, it was common practice to repair ancient statuary ...

Ancient Greek and Roman warships were equipped with bronze rams to smash and sink enemy vessels – and a team of archaeologists has just recreated one. They plan to test the weapon on replica ...

Renovations on a soccer field outside of Vienna, Austria, uncovered a Roman-era mass grave that held the remains of roughly 150 males. Experts believe the site was likely a battlefield where a ...

If you ever get invited to an Ancient Roman banquet, you'll need to know the etiquette rules. Let's talk about these rules while we make a traditional Roman dessert! Donald Trump's Approval Rating ...

The Plague of Justinian, which affected the Eastern Roman Empire in the 540s, may also have been caused in part by a colder climate. Christopher Spencer at Queen’s University in Kingston ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered the remains of a remarkably well-preserved dog from ancient Rome – and the discovery highlights the prevalence of ritual sacrifice in antiquity. The excavation ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, don't often think to look beyond the city walls.

Quinoa is known as an ancient grain, grown for centuries by indigenous farmers ... Dr. Emma McDonell tells the complicated story in “The Quinoa Bust: The Making and Unmaking of an Andean Miracle Crop, ...

Image Much of the collection consists of portrait busts of emperors and eminences ... But nothing here looks anything like it would have in ancient Rome. Most are elisions of ancient marble ...

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but is also comparing these pieces with material held within internationally important stonework repositories in order to compile a digital database of Roman imperial portrait typology. Such a ...

Ancient manuscripts detailing the events during the Roman Empire are believed to contain 'first hand' evidence about the life and death of Jesus Christ. The Annals, written by the Roman historian ...