Tear bottles, believed to be a pre-Christian custom, were used to collect tears, particularly by women who lost their ...

Was it a bar brawl? Archaeologists will never know what killed these two people found near an ancient Roman site.

The Romans occupied what's now Spain from 218 B.C. until roughly the fourth century A.D. The fortress burial included a " pugio " — the standard dagger of the Roman army — that suggests the dead man ...

Researchers have found a Roman brooch in the foundation of an Iron Age house in Scotland, but what was it doing there?

The City Museum of Rimini confirmed the fragments were Roman, and a team of archaeologists ... sections of the old city wall; the triumphal Arch of Augustus, erected in 27 B.C., marking the ...

Created more than a century before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., the wall paintings provide rare insights into secret rituals conducted in the Roman city ...

Archeologists have been probing a mystery which may shed light on the way he ancient people of Scotland interacted with the Roman legions who ...

Dan Snow explores the physical remains of Hadrian’s vast project of 122AD - over 80 Roman miles of wall, turrets and forts, stretching from coast to coast across northern England. Mile after mile of ...

A museum director in Turkey has been fired after it was revealed that she had been illegally removing parts of an ancient Greek church.

Researchers from Guard Archaeology believe the brooch could shine a light on the way people in ancient Scotland interacted with Roman soldiers guarding Hadrian's Wall. The brooch was thought to be ...