New sites and artifacts are found all the time, revealing forgotten secrets of the past. Here are some of the latest discoveries: In the heart of Rome, a dazzling blue material dating back 2,000 years ...

Excavations at Domus Aurea, the former imperial residence of Roman emperor Nero, have yielded remnants of the rare Egyptian ...

Students adventured around the globe this winter break, seeing sites in cities from Rome to Cuzco to Berlin. INDS 214: ...

More specifically, he said the pieces were probably used to play a game called “Ludus Latrunculi”, in which players attempted ...

Metal detectorist Constantin Fried found a miniature lock dating to the Roman era while exploring a field near ...

Archaeologists in Luxembourg have unearthed a stash of Roman gold coins dating back some 1,600 years. The coins are marked ...

A metal detectorist stumbled on a tiny gold cylinder while searching a field in Germany. The find looked like a miniature version of some other ancient Roman artifacts — and left archaeologists ...

Deep beneath Rome’s Domus Aurea, archaeologists have unearthed a rare ingot of Egyptian blue — the world’s first synthetic ...

“Forgery and tax fraud carried severe penalties under Roman law, including hard labor or even capital punishment,” Dolganov ...

With dazzling pieces from ancient Greece, Rome, and Egypt, these historic gems may just cost less than today’s designer ...

The lentil-shaped objects were unearthed in Hadrianopolis, an ancient city in modern-day Turkey, that once hosted a Roman ...