A couple who have volunteered in numerous excavations over the years found a "highly revered" ancient artifact at a fort in Northumberland, near Hadrian's Wall, in England.

Historian Mary Beard says many of our popular notions about the empire are based on culture — like the play Julius Caesar or the film Gladiator — rather than fact. Her new book is called SPQR.

Nymphs offer us more than just stories of sexy nature spirits. They can reveal how ancient people thought about their world ...

Tarquinia, on the west coast of Italy, was an ancient Etruscan city, and it's where Marco Contestabile grew up, surrounded by ...

"The notion of a Roman sculpture show might seem at first blush to be a bit stodgy," said Kyle MacMillan in the Chicago Sun-Times. But the 58 ancient works that constitute "Myth and Marble" are ...

8 things people get wrong about ancient Rome From gladiators to vomitoriums, delve into Rome’s most persistent myths and find out what really happened.

There was no one type of slavery in ‘biblical’ or ‘ancient’ societies, given how varied they were. But much of what historians know about slavery during those eras is horrific.

That is a theme of “Roman Landscapes: Visions of Nature and Myth From Rome and Pompeii” at the San Antonio Museum of Art, which has gathered about 65 wall paintings, relief sculptures, mosaics ...

In Ancient Pompeii, Dinner Surrounded by Myth A frescoed dining room is the latest find in an excavation campaign to shore up an area of the site, which was destroyed by a powerful volcanic ...

Who’s a Carthaginian? Genetic Study Revises Ancestry of Rome’s Ancient Nemesis The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians.

During an archaeological inspection of a waterway project site in Rome, archaeologists found ancient funerary relics, including a terracotta statue with a dog's head.

Construction workers unearthed a life-size marble statue of a Roman emperor dressed as Hercules while repairing a Roman sewer. “I doubt anyone was expecting a find like this under these ...