One thousand six hundred years ago, in a city named after the famous emperor Hadrian, bored Roman soldiers spent their free ...

Depending on how old you are, you might remember having to pull out a paper map to find your way around a place. Back then, ...

The scroll, found in the Judean desert, has been painstakingly translated from Nabataean, an ancient Arabic language.

Archaeologists have traced the earliest case of lead pollution by humans to the Aegean Sea region around 5,200 years ago. The ...

SUMMARY Slavery was integral to Roman society, and slaves outnumbered citizens in Rome. There were many routes to slavery, including as prisoners of war, selling oneself into slavery, or being born a ...

"This is the best-documented Roman court case from Iudaea apart from the trial of Jesus," said one researcher.

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

Spread across Türkiye from the Bosporus and Aegean coast to eastern Anatolia are incredible under-the-radar museums that often get overlooked by travelers.

In the Biblical site of Abel Beth Maacah in northern Israel, archaeologists have discovered ancient Roman tablets revealing ...

How a 1,720-year-old Roman boundary stone unearthed in Galilee reveals new insights into ancient land ownership, taxation, ...

A bit of strategy gaming on the go? Developer Billionworlds and publisher Daedalic Entertainment recently announced the ...

Irene of Athens was the first Greek-Roman empress to wield power as a sole ruler of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.