In everyday life, Romans preferred simple and comfortable clothing, such as the tunic — a shirt-like garment resembling a ...
For a more unusual and slightly eerie experience, visit the Catacombs of Rome, a series of underground burial sites used by ...
A mosaic from a Roman villa in Sicily depicts ten women wearing an ancient version of the two-piece bikini. Credit: TyB / CC-BY-2.0 / Wikimedia Commons It is believed that the bikini was a ...
The mysterious Sibylline Books were a number of secretly kept Greek oracle collections that the rulers of Ancient Rome ...
An ancient mosaic located near what s believed to be the site of the prophesied Armageddon contains a reference to Jesus as ...
It’s fitting that it was the expansion-minded ancient Romans who built Europe’s first super highway — they understood the ...
Because the Roman Empire itself reportedly produced corny souvenirs. It's like the meme where two Spider-Men are pointing ...
A new book, 50 Objects From Vindolanda by Barbara Birley and Elizabeth M Greene, examines some of those artefacts in detail.
View our world through the eyes of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, inventors of theater, democracy, Civil law, and straight roads! UD’s Ancient Greek and Roman Studies program allows students to ...
Archaeologists from the University of Oslo’s Museum of Cultural History have recently conducted an excavation at Holmetjønn, an ancient mountain cabin site along the historic Nordmannslepa ... Might ...
An adventurer is set to stop by Dunfermline to share the secrets of an ancient Arabian empire. Alice Morrison will journey to the city next month to recount her exploration of the Nabateans, a ...
As Italian prime minister, Alcide De Gasperi oversaw the post-World War II return to Greece of Rhodes and the other ...