Archaeologists in southern Turkey have uncovered five new theatrical mask reliefs from the ancient city of Castabala — once ...

In the late 1700s, Juan Vegazo, a farmer and amateur historian in Ubrique, in the southern Spanish province of Cadiz, had a grand theory: buried within the rock and dirt of a nearby hill lay the ...

W elcome to a new monthly bonus edition of Plot Twist. I think about ancient Rome more than most (so much so that I’ve ...

A listener comments on a review of the movie Brokeback Mountain and its portrayal of gay men in America. A tongue-in-cheek essay by Diane Roberts about ancient Romans annoyed by non-Saturnalia holiday ...

French authorities are investigating a man who allegedly found 27,400 archaeological artifacts – including more than 14,000 Roman coins. In September 2019, the French national said he had discovered ...

A new interactive map reveals the Roman road network, linking Ancient Greece with the empire and shaping trade, travel, and ...

At its zenith in the second century AD, the Roman Empire encompassed more than 55 million inhabitants stretching from Britain to Egypt and Syria. While historians have long recognized that an ...

Excavations in the ancient Roman city Gabii have uncovered a water basin that could predate much of Roman monumental architecture. Experts believe the water basin could sit alongside another ...

Archaeologists discovered a highly public Roman mound tomb in Bavaria, a rare find for the area. The somewhat flashy location of the tomb along a highly trafficked road showed the importance of the ...