the book examines the evolution of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day Alexa Robles-Gil The votive plaque was found amid the ruins of an ancient Roman fortress.

Photo from L. Destrade and Inrap Digging into the pale brown dirt of southern France, archaeologists painstakingly revealed more and more of a rare ancient Roman site. One structure in particular ...

7, 2024 — Researchers have used ancient DNA to challenge long-held interpretations ... of microorganisms within the hot waters of the Roman Baths, regularly listed among the UK's most popular ...

Their names, written in ancient Greek, identify them as females.1st-2nd century CE. Credit: Carole Raddato / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0 In Ancient Rome, female fighters were known as “Gladiatrix ...

The statue, slightly taller than a human, according to the post, was found in Varna, the ancient city Odessa, and displayed a middle-aged man with a short beard, dressed in a Roman toga and ...

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 ...

Mesopotamian trade symbols may be origins of proto-cuneiform. Cylinder seals linked trade to early script development. Study shows transition from trade symbols to structured writing.

An open-air museum was built on the site of an ancient Roman estate in Stein, Germany. Screengrab from Römisches Freilichtmuseum's Facebook post During the first century, the area of modern-day ...

Edward Watts is a historian at the University of California San Diego and the author of two books on ancient Rome. One, from 2018, is called Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell Into Tyranny ...

Anthropologists have spent decades documenting a mysterious collection of symbols etched into the Peruvian desert, depicting everything from human decapitation and domesticated animals to knife ...