Fish, grains, meat, and vegetables, but also figs, hazelnuts, bread, and other healthy foods. Through the analysis of some skeletons from the Herculaneum Archaeological Park some time ago, it ...

Across the world, the remains of ancient civilisations endure as physical records of how societies once organised power, ...

Cologne was once Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium, a powerhouse of the Roman Empire. The governor lived here in a massive palace called the Praetorium. We’ve known about the palace for decades, but ...

A mysterious flat stone with a geometric pattern of straight lines carved into it may be a previously unknown Roman board game. Thousands of simulations by artificial intelligence of how sliding stone ...

The Lady of Kalymnos is an exquisite Greek sculpture dating back to the Hellenistic period, around the 3rd century BC.

"Veni, Vidi, Hercvlanevm - Virtual Reality Experience" is the name of the new experimental project at the Herculaneum Archaeological Park. Even before entering the site, it transforms the visit into ...

VALMEYER, Ill. – A small earthquake shook eastern Missouri and western Illinois Sunday night. The magnitude 2.0 quake struck at 8:23 p.m. near Herculaneum, along the northern edge of the broader ...

In a BBC archive clip from 1936, the archaeologist Howard Carter describes the moment on 12 February 1924 when he and his team became the first people in 3,300 years to meet the Egyptian boy king.

Recent advances in biomolecular archaeology have revealed that ancient objects can retain the molecular fingerprints of past aromatic practices. These molecules provide unprecedented insight into ...

Amid the remains of a sumptuous villa near Pompeii, the hard-hatted conservationist scraped away centuries-old ash to reveal a vibrant red fresco.