A site in Switzerland contained evidence of an administrative center that was part of a bigger plan to build a urban center that never came to fruition.

The ruins of Augusta Raurica near Basel, Switzerland are home to the best-preserved Roman theater north of the Alps.

In Serbia, archaeologists are carefully removing sand and soil from the well-preserved wooden remains of a Roman ship. The ship was found by miners in a large coal quarry. Following the exposure of ...

Archaeologists are now three years into a five-year dig at a Roman fort. Earlier this year the excavation made headlines when ...

Between 43 and 150 C.E., colorful frescoes covered the interior walls of a luxurious villa in the ancient Roman town of Londinium, the precursor to modern-day London. But sometime before 200 C.E., the ...

Volunteer archaeologists are set to return to the remains of a Roman settlement after making the most significant discovery ...

At first, the archaeologists assumed the images came from Homer’s Iliad, the best-known account of the war. The scenes seemed ...

An international team of researchers has mapped the entirety of an ancient, buried Roman city known as Falerii Novi using radar scanning technology. The researchers unraveled the secrets of the city, ...

Archaeologists in the U.K. have made a groundbreaking discovery at the Brookside Meadows site in Grove, a village in Oxfordshire. Amid a housing development by Barratt and David Wilson Homes, they ...

Much about archaeology can be described as trying to figure out the context in which objects and constructions should be interpreted. A good example of this are the metal dodecahedrons (twelve-sided ...

It has been revealed that the skeletal remains of a man from Roman-era Britain show he was bitten by a large cat like a lion, meaning that he may well have been a combatant who died in a gladiator ...

A skeleton found facedown in Wales with a sword, silver brooch and restraints may be that of an elite Roman soldier. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.