Ancient Rome
Jan 16
Facelift: Augustus’s Mausoleum
By: Glenn J. Corbett
Two thousand years ago, it stood as a towering monument to the everlasting glory of Rome’s first emperor, Caesar Augustus (63 BCE–14 CE). Situated near […]
Jan 12
The Home of Nero’s Wife at Pompeii
Renewed excavations near Pompeii are revealing more of the incredible riches of a house believed to be the home of Emperor Nero’s second wife, Poppaea. […]
Jan 7
The Roman Army at Armageddon
By: Marek Dospěl
From the Bronze Age to the Ottoman period and beyond, the Jezreel Valley has served as a meeting point for armies, merchants, and pilgrims. Its […]
Jan 5
Evidence of Early Christianity in Northern Europe
Excavations of a cemetery in the ancient Roman town of Nida, located in a suburb of modern Frankfurt, Germany, have revealed the earliest evidence for […]
Dec 1
DNA and Gender at Pompeii
By: Lila Wolk
In 79 CE, the Roman town of Pompeii was covered in volcanic ash, courtesy of Mt. Vesuvius. While the bodies of the dead decomposed long […]
Nov 3
Roman Soldiers Buried in a Croatian Well
Editor’s Note: The following article contains photos of human remains. Before the construction of a new university library in Osijek, Croatia, excavations revealed a startlingly […]
Oct 8
Thrown in a Late Roman Jail
Although jails of various sorts would have been as normal in the Roman Empire as they are today, archaeologists have discovered fewer than you might […]
Oct 6
Adriatic Shipwreck Reveals Details of Roman Trade
Excavators with Croatia’s International Centre for Underwater Archaeology in Zadar have spent years carefully excavating a well-preserved Roman merchant ship that sank in Barbir Bay, […]
Sep 22
Medusa in an Etruscan Tomb
During routine conservation work at the Palazzone necropolis, outside of Perugia in central Italy, archaeologists made a fascinating discovery: a burial urn decorated with the […]
Sep 15
Tracing the Justinian Plague
The Justinian Plague (c. 541–750 CE) was one of the deadliest pandemics in human history. The Byzantine chronicler Procopius recorded that the plague claimed the […]
