In a groundbreaking achievement, published in the journal PLOS One, researchers have identified the author and title of an ...

No two tools in the 2,000-year-old kit were the same, indicating the owner was skilled in precise stonework, according to the study.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A view of the St. Mary Major Basilica, where Pope ...

President Michael D Higgins has travelled to Rome for the funeral of Pope Francis. President Higgins and his wife Sabrina travelled to the Vatican on Friday, where they will pay their respects to Pope ...

The American Academy in Rome’s historic compound was designed by McKim, Mead, and White. (altrospazio/Courtesy American Academy in Rome) Tameka Baba, Sean Burkholder, and Karen Lutsky are ...

A recent analysis of classical medical texts suggests dementia was extremely rare in ancient Greece and Rome 2,000 to 2,500 years ago. The USC-led research, published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s ...

Bookings to Rome surged by 400 per cent in the 24 hours ... as last-minute bookings significantly increase,” Mr Hentschel told The i Paper. “A one night stay this Saturday at the Orange ...

This man's skeleton represents the first known direct physical evidence of human-animal combat from ancient Roman times, the researchers said. Wild animals used in such spectacles included ...

They also chemically analyzed the ancient Roman bones to confirm other traits, such as the deceased person’s sex and nutritional condition—clues that could help determine whether this skeleton ...

(CN) — A skeleton found in a Roman cemetery in York offers the first physical evidence of a gladiator fighting — and dying — in combat with a lion, or large cat. The research, published Wednesday in ...

The Roman occupation of parts of Britain ended ... Using tree-ring data from ancient oaks, the team reconstructed rainfall levels in southern Britain during the years preceding the rebellion.

Oddly enough, it wasn’t among the ruins of the mighty Colosseum, but rather in the remains of a man buried in Roman-era York, England. The skeleton, discovered in a cemetery along an ancient ...