Berenike was an isolated, windswept outpost. It linked the Roman Empire to the trade routes of India, Arabia, and East Africa ...

New research suggests that the illustrations may have been based on "Phrygians," a tragedy by the Athenian playwright ...

MIT scientists have used modern technology to unravel the mysterious self-healing properties of ancient Roman concrete.

Pompeii Archeological Park site map, with showing where the ancient building site is located, with colour coded piles of raw construction materials (right): purple: debris; green: piles of dry ...

We tend to imagine ancient materials as crude or primitive, but Roman concrete was more sophisticated than anything in use ...

Urban populations in southern Britain experienced a decline in health that lasted for generations after the Romans arrived ...

A newfound mosaic draws inspiration from "Phrygians," a play by the Athenian playwright Aeschylus that survives only in bits ...

A study of a mosaic discovered on an English farm in 2020 shows that the Romans knew more than just Homer's version of the ...

Frank Herbert’s Dune popularized windtraps as devices that harvest moisture from desert air, but real ancient Iran developed ...

If you feel a thrill every time we discover something new about the cosmos, then November 25th may have been a noteworthy day ...

A preserved construction site at Pompeii is reshaping modern understanding of how Rome engineered its famously durable concrete.

Long dismissed as poor construction, ‘self-healing’ lime clasts have helped Ancient Roman structures persist for millennia.