Archaeologists in Switzerland just unearthed a Roman amphitheater dating to the fourth century A.D. — making it the youngest ...

The lentil-shaped objects were unearthed in Hadrianopolis, an ancient city in modern-day Turkey, that once hosted a Roman ...

Archaeologists in Luxembourg have unearthed a stash of Roman gold coins dating back some 1,600 years. The coins are marked ...

The ancient Romans lived in smelly cities. We know this from archaeological evidence found at the best-preserved sites of Roman Italy — Pompeii, Herculaneum, Ostia and Rome — as well as from ...

Roman religion was divided into two. Spirits watched over people, families and households, and the paterfamilias was in charge of the household worship that honored them. Romans also had a set of ...

Why are people in some regions happier and healthier than in other regions? For the first time, an international team of ...

such as Tyche in Greek tradition and Fortuna in Roman culture. These deities, associated with prosperity, fertility, and well-being, were typically depicted with a cornucopia, an emblem of abundance.

The first, the conquest by Alexander, which brought Greek culture to the middle eastern territories. And then, subsequent to that, the Roman imperial expansion, which would take that over politically.

“We’re no longer a boutique industry. We’re not on the fringe. We’re driving pop culture now, and with the fact that Roman ...