Nearly 2,000 years after it was buried in Mount Vesuvius ash, a charred Roman scroll has revealed its author and title ...

A sealed Herculaneum scroll yields its secrets—revealing a lost philosophical treatise by Philodemus through virtual ...

For the first time, bite marks made by a large cat, possibly an African lion, have been identified on the bones of what is ...

Researchers working to decipher the contents of a burned, still-rolled scroll have uncovered both the author and the title of ...

A charred Herculaneum scroll, buried by the AD 79 Vesuvius eruption, was identified via X-ray as part of Philodemus’ On Vices ...

Core elements of Roman law can be traced back to the ancient Greek world. Roman law has been fundamental to the foundations ...

Behind a rusty gate near Rome’s Circus Maximus is a building passed daily by hordes of tourists. They’re oblivious to the ...

with discoveries ranging from ancient public baths and residential homes to a commercial district dating back to the 4th century AD. In one extraordinary instance, an entire Roman road ...

On Night 1, a triple threat match between Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins and CM Punk headlines with tensions boiling over between the three men with Paul Heyman caught in the crossfire. Things started ...

In it, Andrade, a scholar of the Greco-Roman world, argues that the authors of the Gospels rewrote history to let the Romans off the hook, and shifted the blame for their messiah’s execution to ...

Against the ancient backdrop of Rome’s Colosseum, thousands gathered Friday evening for the solemn Via Crucis procession, where Cardinal Baldassare Reina carried the cross on behalf of Pope ...