According to a recent analysis of a 1,900-year-old papyrus from ancient Rome ... two men who lived in a border region between two Roman provinces. The scroll, written by a prosecutor in ...

Tassan was showing me a milliaire, or milestone, one of hundreds planted along the highways of Gaul at the time of the Roman ... maps to 21st-century aerial photographs, located broken bits of ...

Some of Italy's best wineries are located just south of Florence throughout the wine region of Tuscany. Here are the 9 best ...

For the first time, an archaeological investigation has conclusively documented the existence of a brückenkopfkastell—a Roman ...

Yungang's caverns have carvings of Central Asian merchants leading camel trains laden with silk, and Angkor Wat's stone walls ...

Imagine standing on a rugged cliff, the wind whipping past as you gaze at ancient lava fields, fossilized dinosaur footprints ...

Published in the journal Climatic Change, the research used tree-ring data from ancient oak trees to reconstruct weather ... of rain led to widespread food shortages, weakening the Roman province’s ...

One way to balance your holiday choices with residents’ quality of life is to stay in less tourist-heavy areas. Francisco ...

The long-defunct crops of their Neolithic ancestors, Erdogan and Saracoglu suggest, contain a road map to creating ... of Greco-Roman society by revealing that ancient Neapolitan seafarers brought ...

With his innovative ideas, Callimachus brought order by creating a map ... Roman poets, big names like Catullus and Ovid, looked back at Callimachus as a master, borrowing his style and focus on ...

Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the 'Barbarian Conspiracy', a pivotal moment in the history of Roman Britain, a new study reveals. Researchers argue that Picts, Scotti and Saxons ...

While Rome eventually restored order, some historians argue that the province never fully recovered. Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the 'Barbarian Conspiracy', a pivotal moment ...