A hoard of 1,368 coins, most of them silver, was discovered in England. Why they were buried is a mystery.

The effort started when amateur archaeologists discovered a single gold coin in a nearby field in Holzthum village in north ...

The Byzantines and the Venetians were masters of commerce, and that led to a devastating trade war between the two powers.

When Elon Musk performed a gesture that many saw as a fascist gesture, his supporters claimed it was a Roman salute. So ...

Silver fueled the rise of the Roman Empire. But the ancient process of mining and extracting silver was also making the air thick with lead, scientists found.

The ancient artwork was uncovered during excavations at Pompeii in the 19th century. Now, researchers are conducting a long, ...

Archaeologists excavating Abel Beth Maacah in northern Israel have discovered a rare Tetrarchic boundary stone from the Roman ...

Few grocery shoppers in a regular central Strasbourg supermarket have any idea that below their feet is a third-century tower ...

Ancient Romans weren't as bright as they might have been. According to a new study published Monday in the journal PNAS, the ...

Waffles are one of the oldest treats. The history of waffles goes back to ancient Greece and a type of bread called obleios ...

Hanno is defined by the film’s most formidable character, Macrinus, played by the Mephistophelean Denzel Washington, as a person who is driven by rage—which is the first word of the founding tome of ...

The Roman emperors were once the most famous people in the world, ruling over an empire that stretched between what are now ...