The Romans had a serious trash problem, though by our standards it was good-looking trash. Their problem was amphorae. They needed millions of the curvy clay jars to ship wine, olive oil, and fish ...

During the dig, the team uncovered a “unique” gold plaque with a Greek inscription dedicated to Jupiter Dolichenus, a ...

In the past twenty years in France alone almost 400 shipwrecks from the Greek and Roman eras have been found. All but three had been pillaged before being discovered by the authorities. This films ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a rare gold artifact inscribed with ancient Greek text dedicated to Jupiter at a Roman fortress ...

The gold object features an inscription dedicated to an ancient deity who was particularly revered by soldiers.

The site of the first colony founded by Rome beyond Italian soil had few reminders of its former prestige - but that has ...

So it means we can see things much further away than we ever saw. BB: You know amphora? The clay jars that Roman ships carried? They were the shipping container of the Roman Empire—sort of the ...

The channel was usually waterproofed with a layer of opus signinum, a kind of mortar made of fragments of crushed tiles and amphorae. Roman piping systems carried water from sources to the city ...

The analysis, based on fragments of late Roman amphorae found at multiple archaeological sites, reveals how these wines were transported throughout the Mediterranean between the 4th and 7th centuries ...

An excavation at a Roman fortress in the country of Georgia has revealed a gold offering to a god of war, a colorful mosaic ...