Workers at a high school in Rome discovered ancient Roman remains beneath the building’s gymnasium floor, triggering an ...

Instead of waiting for prey to stumble into its web, it uses a spring-loaded trap to launch ants into it. The spider was ...

After nearly seven decades of excavation, the legendary ancient city of Sardis has become a UNESCO World Heritage Site, ...

Across the former Roman Empire, a surprising number of ancient structures are not merely archaeological ruins but living monuments still used for purposes remarkably similar to those for which they ...

The expansion of one of the Mediterranean’s strongest powers wasn’t only driven by conquest, but also infrastructure. By borrowing techniques from the Greeks and the Etruscans, Romans engineered ...

All the cardinals of the Catholic Church have been called to Rome by Pope Leo XIV for his first extraordinary consistory from Jan. 7-8 to discuss several topics, including the Roman Curia. An ...

A recent excavation at Pompeii has uncovered new details about the construction techniques that allowed the ancient Romans to build structures still standing after over 2,000 years. Archaeologists ...

The Romans created iconic structures from concrete — from the dome of Rome’s Pantheon to the roads that stretched across their empire. Researchers now have a better idea of how 1. Ellie Vaserman at ...

Roman concrete is pretty amazing stuff. It’s among the main reasons we know so much about Roman architecture today. So many structures built by the Romans still survive, in some form, thanks to their ...

Researchers excavate site of ancient construction project Piles of premixed material for concrete are discovered Findings point to the use of a method called 'hot mixing' The site represents a ...

Concrete was the foundation of the ancient Roman empire. It enabled Rome's storied architectural revolution as well as the construction of buildings, bridges, and aqueducts, many of which are still ...