Nearly 2,000 years ago, ancient Romans enjoyed a variety of snacks when attending events at the Colosseum. Recent ...

Using tree-ring data from ancient oaks, the team reconstructed rainfall levels in southern Britain during the years preceding ...

A life-sized statue has been discovered in Pompeii of an ancient Roman woman thought to have been a priestess in a fertility ...

While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

Discover how droughts contributed to the Barbarian Conspiracy invasion and affected Roman control in southern Britain.

A comprehensive analysis of thousands of homes from the last 10,000 years reveals the distribution of wealth in ancient times ...

Scientists link the 367 CE Barbarian invasion of Roman Britain to severe drought, revealing climate’s hidden role in the ...

Proof of an ancient ... quarry and the Roman age, when the area had a funerary use." "The quarry had to be gradually abandoned and as the stone extraction ended it was used for agricultural ...

Discoveries challenge previous assumptions about Roman influence in the region, revealing extensive Roman activity and ...

A team of international scientists, led by researchers from the University of Southampton, has traced strange, out-of-place ...