A New Orleans family cleaning up their overgrown backyard made an extremely unusual find: Under the weeds was a mysterious marble tablet with Latin characters that included the phrase “spirits of the ...

ANCIENT Romans used human poo to treat common ailments, archaeologists have revealed. The grim discovery is the first direct evidence that the ancient civilisation really was keeping human faeces ...

Archaeologists found evidence of a previously unknown Roman-era administrative center in present-day Switzerland. Experts believe this settlement was crucial for commerce and record-keeping—all part ...

Physicians of the Roman empire had a knack for making remedies from an assortment of components from various animals, ...

Ancient Roman finds backing to the 2nd century BC are on display in the ‘Colosseo’ new subway station, designed as a museum to showcase the archaeological finds uncovered during its construction, in ...

New Orleans resident Daniella Santoro points out the spot in her backyard where her family discovered a 1,900-year-old gravestone for a Roman sailor that had been missing for decades from an Italian ...

ROME (AP) — Rome opened two subway stations on Tuesday — one deep beneath the Colosseum — that mix the modernity of high-tech transport with artifacts from an ancient era. Commuters and tourists ...