A study of limescale buildup in an early bathing facility at Pompeii has revealed that the water was replaced only once per ...

The ancient Greeks on Crete may have cheated the Romans by exporting "knock-off" versions of their highly prized raisin wine.

At the Roman settlement of A Cibdá de Armea in northwestern Spain, archaeologists uncovered evidence suggesting that ancient Romans adorned their amulets with fossils of extinct marine arthropods, ...

According to Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro, the city of Rome was founded in April 753BC. and was formed from settlements gathered around the River Tiber. The early inhabitants of Rome were a ...

Once an important port that supplied food to ancient Rome, off-the-beaten-path Testaccio remains the city's favourite culinary destination. On a warm Saturday evening last autumn in Rome, I took two ...

Piers Mitchell has previously received research funding from the British Academy, the Wellcome Trust, and the Natural Environment Research Council Prior to the Romans, Greece was the only part of ...