Learn how parasites preserved in an ancient sewer reveal how disease spread among Roman soldiers.

It probably sucked to be a Roman soldier guarding Hadrian’s Wall circa the third century CE. W.H. Auden imagined the likely ...

A new analysis of sewer drains from the Roman fort of Vindolanda, close to Hadrian's Wall, has shown that the occupants were ...

A Roman cemetery containing 100 warhorses and a man buried among them has been discovered in Germany, posing a social and ...

The tomb and its personal artifacts are some of the first true pieces of evidence of an early Roman presence in the area. The ...

Roman military officers stationed in Egypt kept pet monkeys imported from India as a symbol of wealth, according to a new ...

In 2017, the oldest and most complete set of Roman armour was unearthed in Kalkriese, Germany. Roughly 2,000 years old, it is ...

In this new study, a team analyzed the genomes of 70 ancient cats, dating back over the last 11,000 years (from about 9000 BCE to 19th century CE). The genomes were taken from bones found in ...

In Velzeke, near Zottegem, in East Flanders, archaeologists are searching for traces of an ancient Roman army camp. If they ...

Excavations of sewer drains at a Roman fort in northern England have revealed the presence of several parasites that can ...

From party invitations to requests for warm socks, letters discovered at Vindolanda, England gave first-hand accounts of everyday life inside a Roman fort. Roman outpostAn aerial view shows the ...