"Something told me to go to that field. I wasn't expecting much, but then it just snowballed." English contractor David Dunn ...

After an amateur archaeologist found a Roman dagger in the hills of Switzerland in 2019, experts flocked to the site to carry ...

Unlike society in ancient Egypt, Rome did not regard women as equal to ... or ´tutela,´ until they died. By the time of Augustus, however, women with three children (and freedwomen with four ...

One ancient writer describes Julia, Augustus’ only daughter, entertaining her lovers in public in the Roman forum. While Messalina, Claudius’ first wife, is said to have taken part in a ...

Lead pollution likely led to widespread declines in IQ during the ancient Roman ... prosperity across the Roman Empire, beginning with the rule of the first emperor Augustus in 27 B.C. and lasting ...

Archaeologists working at Emperor Nero’s grand palace in Rome, known as Domus Aurea, uncovered a rare and rather big Egyptian ...

The Halsted A&A Foundation has acquired a 1st-century Roman statue of the ancient Greek goddess Athena ... head from one made during the reign of Augustus (31BCE-14CE), and the body created ...