A "table" in an "exceptional" Roman tomb has turned out to be an ancient sarcophagus bearing a set of human remains, archaeologists have revealed. The so-called Tomb of Cerberus, which was ...

The artefact was returned to the Italian government in 2017 before going on display earlier this year ...

If ancient table makers, ignoring the extra quarter day a year, made two tables 40 years apart, 40 quarter days of slippage would mean the later table had star positions shifted by exactly one 10 ...

The ancient Babylonians possessed multiplication tables some 4,000 years ago, but theirs were in a base-60, rather than base-10 (decimal), system. The earliest-known European multiplication table ...

A 1,700-year-old Roman sarcophagus was discovered masquerading as a table at a tourist beach bar in Bulgaria. Authorities have opened a pre-trial investigation into how it ended up in the bar.

The ancient Romans indulged in lavish, hours-long banquet feasts that served to broadcast their wealth and status in ways that eclipse our notions of a resplendent meal.

A "table" in an "exceptional" Roman tomb has turned out to be an ancient sarcophagus bearing a set of human remains, archaeologists have revealed.

The ancient Romans indulged in lavish, hours-long banquet feasts that served to broadcast their wealth and status in ways that eclipse our notions of a resplendent meal.