The Colosseum in ancient Rome had 50,000 spectators, the roar of the crowd, and… a snack break? Yep, the Romans didn’t just ...

Rome’s rise from a small settlement to the center of a vast empire was deeply influenced by geography. The city developed around a strategic crossing of the Tiber River, aided by the presence of Tiber ...

Nearly 2,000 years ago, ancient Romans enjoyed a variety of snacks when attending events at the Colosseum. Recent archaeological findings have uncovered remnants of these foods, and interestingly, ...

A Budapest pizzeria has created an ancient Rome-inspired pizza with no tomatoes or mozzarella — featuring fermented fish sauce, olive paste and duck leg instead.

Stately portraits, raucous frescoes, delicate jewelry, and intricate mosaics—all these treasures and more fill the galleries of Ancient Splendor: Roman Art in the Time of Trajan. The new special ...

During their excavation work, archaeologists discovered an oval stone measuring roughly 8.3 by 5.7 inches in diameter and ...

Pliny the Elder was an intellectual powerhouse of ancient Rome. Though not a physician, in describing the ideal daily routine ...

The Romans associated pants with barbarism and eventually banned them, but the legwear eventually became commonplace nonetheless.

Walter Crist, who researches ancient games at Leiden University in the Netherlands, first saw the carved limestone in 2020, at the Het Romeins Museum. Located in the southern Dutch city of Heerlen, ...