These discoveries were believed to be part of what was once a large fountain or sculpture from a bathhouse that stood at the site in the centuries before Rome fell. Regardless, the site has proven to ...

Statue of Lycurgus of Sparta, at the Law Courts of Brussels. Credit: Mattpopovich / CC0 / Wikimedia Commons The division of people into various social classes is a persistent feature across ...

For example, one estimate is that one third of the Roman empire’s entire revenue was generated by taxes on trade with ancient India. Historian William Dalrymple’s latest book — The Golden ...

A fresco featuring the bright blue paint of the newly opened room; a scanning electron image of an ancient Roman concrete sample with lime clast, highlighted in red; Dr. Masic inspecting the ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Roman military structure in Turkey ... Little is known about this ancient fort, which at one time was called Cepha, from the Aramaic word for ...

The test took place inside a massive centrifuge that mimics the elevated gravity conditions of a space mission. NASA recently put a crucial part of the Roman Space Telescope — the Outer Barrel ...

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have identified an “exceptionally well-preserved” marble statue of a Roman man that was ... once known as the ancient Greek city of Odessos. Workers found the ...

Saira Mueller is the interim culture editor at Polygon. She is fascinated by health and technology and has written about it for CNN, Wired, Mashable, and Self. After playing the new city-builder ...

These concerns are not new. Millennia ago, people in ancient Greece and Rome already knew humans were damaging the natural world. Literature from these ancient times contains many references to ...

Sometimes, ancient discoveries come when least expected ... Before this, during the Roman period, the deceased were placed on their backs in wooden enclosures. Further analysis of the cemetery ...