New techniques have allowed researchers to finally shed light on the usage and manufacturing of the embedded jars. Your local tavern may seem like a very modern part of our contemporary world, but ...

The tablet known as Plimpton 322, dated to around 1800 BCE, contains 15 rows of numbers linked to Pythagorean triples ...

A centuries-old glassmaking strategy has helped researchers unlock new ways to engineer futuristic MOF glasses with promising ...

We hardly give them a second thought, but everyday objects like bags and backpacks belong to a long technological tradition that may stretch back hundreds of thousands of years.

The resilience of Roman concrete has been considered one of those miracles lost from history for decades. Whereas most ...

From massive tunnels to gravity-defying highways, Rome built projects that still astonish engineers today. This video reveals ...

Spanning centuries, more than 100 historic shipwrecks have been uncovered on the seafloor of the Bay of Gibraltar by ...

The walls of a corridor that once linked two theatres in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii hold hundreds of inscriptions made ...

A 2,200‑year‑old Roman shipwreck reveals rare waterproofing materials and a detailed repair history, offering new insight into ancient naval technology.

The United States has handed back 337 antiquities looted from ​Italy in one of the largest recent returns of stolen cultural ...

A rare Roman-era metalworking device uncovered during railway excavations in the Czech Republic is offering new insight into ancient industrial techniques and could reveal how Roman chainmail armor ...

Netflix‘s live-action “Assassin’s Creed” series will be an original story set in Rome in 64 A.D., the streamer revealed on Friday. The hotly anticipated series, directed by Johan Renck (“Chernobyl”), ...