A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Appian Way is a roughly 350-mile-long road that runs from Rome to Brindisi. With some parts ...

Walter Crist, who researches ancient games at Leiden University in the Netherlands, first saw the carved limestone in 2020, at the Het Romeins Museum. Located in the southern Dutch city of Heerlen, ...

A smooth, white stone dating from the Roman era and unearthed in the Netherlands has long baffled researchers.

Classicist Curtis Dozier’s The White Pedestal examines how the prestige of Greece and Rome can legitimize modern racism—and ...

The solution: helping the dough rise using fermented spinach juice. Ancient grains such as einkorn and spelt, widely cultivated in Roman times, formed the base, and the dough ended up slightly more ...

The same travertine quarries near Rome that built St. Peter’s Basilica and the Colosseum are still being dug out today.

Step back into the world of Ancient Rome, mapped out through Google Earth with unit placements that bring history to life.

It was the summer of 2020, and researcher Walter Crist was wandering around the exhibits inside a Dutch museum dedicated to the presence of the ancient Roman empire in the Netherlands. As a scientist ...

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A mysterious ancient Roman object found in what is now the southern tip of the Netherlands has long been thought to be some sort of board game. With the help of artificial-intelligence simulations, ...

Researchers recently unveiled proof that Romans used a surprising ingredient in their medical treatments — and it's far from sanitary. The research focuses on a vessel that was unearthed in Pergamon, ...

Discovered in 1912 and closed to visitors for more than a century, Rome’s "Casa dei Grifi" will open to the public in March. Euronews visited the site on the Palatine Hill ahead of its official ...