A Roman board game discovered at a former settlement has been revived through 3D printing. Archaeologists at Vindolanda, in ...

Odysseus' journey to the land of the sorceress Circe may conceal a mystery leading to the earliest examples of LSD in ancient ...

Researchers have recovered texts previously lost to history, revealing philosophical takes on ethics, the arts, human ...

In the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, a young man lay in bed as the world around him erupted into chaos and death. It was AD 79, and the volcano had unleashed its fury, burying the Roman towns of Pompeii ...

A crew of Dutch researchers have made strides in translating the spell laid out on a recently-surfaced Roman curse tablet.

A tiny curse tablet excavated in the Dutch municipality of Heerlen allegedly invokes Egyptian deities and demons not in Latin ...

Researchers have unlocked the meaning behind a 1,900-year-old Roman curse tablet unearthed among the ruins of Coriovallum in ...

The president’s South Lawn fight lacks the ambition of ancient Rome.

Previously, a total of 44 other Roman graves were discovered during excavations for the project, however the most recent find is the first to be fully undisturbed. An undisturbed Roman-era grave ...

As much as I like Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag, I cannot help but think the recently announced Resynced remake is a sign that the franchise is struggling to stay afloat, forever incapable of living up ...

The fall of Ancient Rome has long been a fascinating period of human history to examine. But consider, for a moment, that instead of political infighting, the looming threat of invaders, and the slow ...

When the Western Roman Empire fell in the fifth century C.E., Europe was plunged into chaos as barbarian Germanic forces advanced south—or so the story goes. But a new study shows that some ...