Thanks to the power of virtual reality, the ruins of Rome are no longer static remnants of the past but dynamic portals into a thriving civilization.

Concealed for decades, a huge network of chambers beneath Rome’s Capitoline Hill is to be opened up to the public, revealing a forgotten chapter in the city’s ancient history.

A recent study in Nature Geoscience offers important new insights into the hidden role of ancient groundwater beneath the ocean floor—and how it may have interacted with ice sheets and rising ...

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Rome continued on after the Western Roman Empire fell but faced war and a population crash.

Ancient Temples Have Long Been a Flashpoint Between Cambodia and Thailand Both countries lay claim to centuries-old worship sites perched on the mountains that divide the two nations, sometimes ...

New Jurassic Marine Reptile Found in Germany’s Fossil Beds (Image: Peerj) A newly found sea reptile is making waves. This ancient creature, with a long neck and rare traits, has just joined the ...

Archaeologists Keep Finding Massive Shoes at an Ancient Roman Fort—and They Have No Idea Why They’re So Big Discovered near Hadrian’s Wall in northern England, the oversized leather footwear ...

As a result, Roman gods were a blend of deities, with close similarities to the gods worshipped by the ancient Greeks.

The two traditional villages of Xidi and Hongcun preserve to a remarkable extent the appearance of non-urban settlements of a type that largely disappeared or was transformed during the last century.

Situated on a rocky peninsula on the Black Sea, the more than 3,000-year-old site of Nessebar was originally a Thracian settlement (Menebria). At the beginning of the 6th century BC, the city became a ...