Roman ships equipped with bronze rams sank dozens of Carthaginian ships during a major naval battle in 241 BCE – now we know how the rams were made ...

Unusual rocks on an Icelandic beach were dropped there by icebergs, adding to evidence that an unusually cool period preceded ...

A new DFG project has been launched to study brick stamps in Roman Trier. Trier reached its peak in the 4th century AD, when ...

When construction workers started churning up skeletal remains, a project to renovate a soccer field outside Vienna, Austria, ...

A trio of researchers from Bocconi University, in Italy, the University of Cambridge, in the U.K., and Stanford University, ...

When it comes to the fall of the Roman Empire, this climate shift may have been the straw that broke the camel’s back.” ...

Archaeologists think that as many as 150 individuals may have been hastily buried at the site, likely after a "catastrophic" ...

In October 2024, a construction team came across a sea of skeletal remains while working on renovations to a soccer field in ...

The "Dead Sea Scrolls" exhibit, announced at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, features ancient Jewish ...

Sanctions date back to antiquity, with the "Megarian Decree" issued by Athenian statesman Pericles in 432 BC being the first recorded ...