BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A blacksmith, a stable boy, a soldier, a slave: The faces and stories of these and other residents ...

Ancient Rome's greatest threat to food security wasn't the weather but the challenge of getting grain to the capital, ...

But there is one thing Hollywood gets right. Gladiators were ancient Roman sex symbols, although not in the way one might ...

Laundry work in ancient Rome was physically demanding and often involved unpleasant materials and difficult working ...

For much of the 20th century, historians tended to imagine ordinary Romans as relatively cut off from long-distance trade. The assumption was that most people lived as subsistence farmers, producing ...

The Canopus, a pool at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli, Italy Carole Raddato via Flickr under CC BY-SA 2.0 Ancient Roman infrastructure has stood the test of time. Today, you can walk through Italy and see ...

John Hill was surveying a farmer’s field in southwestern England when his metal detector identified a Roman-era coin hidden ...

Female farm managers are hidden in plain sight in ancient Roman texts, mentioned in laws, literature and grave inscriptions across five centuries. Modern historians have generally assumed they were ...

Ancient Roman concrete's remarkable durability is being studied through a 1,900-year-old toilet. This material contains calcite which forms a web-like network binding everything together. This slow ...

Soldiers and civilians alike enjoyed strategy game Ludus Latrunculorum in the Roman Empire, especially in Roman Britain ...

The answer was hiding in an obscure Latin word that scholars had been mistranslating for decades.