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

Roman ships equipped with bronze rams sank dozens of Carthaginian ships during a major naval battle in 241 BCE – now we know ...

The ancient Greeks wore a variety of hats to protect them from the elements and to act as aesthetic embellishments ...

Archaeologists recovered fragments of armor, nails from Roman military boots, scale mail, and a rusted iron dagger. X-ray ...

When construction workers started churning up skeletal remains, a project to renovate a soccer field outside Vienna, Austria, ...

Archeologists have uncovered the burial in Liternum, an ancient town in Campania that flourished from the 1st century BC to ...

"As cremation burials were common in the European parts of the Roman Empire around 100 AD, body burials were an absolute exception, " she explained. "Finds of Roman skeletons from this period are ...

In a significant discovery from Ancient Rome, archaeologists have unearthed a mass grave of Roman soldiers beneath a soccer field in Vienna. These soldiers suffered a bloody defeat against Germanic ...

Sometime between the mid-first century and early second century CE, Roman legionaries clashed with Germanic fighters near the Danube River in a furious battle. Almost two thousand years later, ...

In October 2024, a construction team came across a sea of skeletal remains while working on renovations to a soccer field in Vienna’s neighboring town of Simmerling. Archeologists from the Vienna ...

Archaeologists said the discovery of the mass grave is especially important because the Romans often cremated their dead, and so Roman inhumation burials from ...