We can probably safely assume Rome, in many areas, was likely pretty dirty and rank-smelling. That said, there's evidence of ...

Was Caligula misunderstood? New research shows the Roman emperor likely knew more about medicinal plants than historians once believed ...

A common whiff in the Roman city would have come from the animals and the waste they created. Roman bakeries frequently used ...

Turkish underwater archaeologists recently uncovered a 2,000-year-old shipwreck with hundreds of intact plates and bowls. The ...

The Romans didn’t just share roads and baths – they shared toilets too. From stone benches to sponge sticks, their bathroom setup was public and practical.

Archaeologists in Turkey uncovered a set of iron weights shaped like ancient Greek letters, in the ruins of the Greco-Roman ...

A Roman-era bridge was discovered in the ancient city of Elefsina, west of Athens during works for a suburban railway line.

Caligula, the notoriously erratic Roman emperor known for his bloodthirsty cruelty, probably also possessed a nerd's ...

By most historical accounts, the Roman Emperor Caligula was a nightmare–a sadistic, debaucherous, and unstable despot.

An expert believes that he has rediscovered the lost Byzantine settlement of Tharais in southern Jordan. Archaeologist ...