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 ...

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

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 ...

Near the kilns, the team found a wine press, “suggesting that local wine may have been exported in these amphorae, likely for use by the Roman military,” the center said. What are we learning ...

It dates from about the 1st or 2nd Century BC and was found laden with hundreds of amphorae - a type of Roman terracotta jar. The pottery was found mostly intact, the Carabinieri police's art ...

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 ...