Researchers have estimated how much the home's owners may have paid to paint the small sacrarium, calculating the price of ...

In what was one of the greatest decoration flexes in ancient Roman design, a wealthy resident of Iuvavum—now modern-day Salzburg, Austria—in the second or third century C.E. had a bronze replica of a ...

Concrete was the foundation of the Roman Empire. For centuries, researchers have tried to uncover the secret behind the self-healing material that allowed Roman structures to defy time. As it turns ...

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Under an ordinary living room, a family home in northeastern France concealed an extraordinary secret: three buried jars packed with an estimated 40,000 Roman coins that had not seen daylight for ...

It has been thousands of years since the eruption of Mount Vesuvius left the Roman city of Pompeii in ruins, but the ancient archaeological site continues to offer new findings. An ornate "blue room," ...

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Ancient Roman flip-flop mosaic from the Villa Romana del Casale, Sicily, Italy (c. 4th century CE) (photo courtesy Isabella Baldini) What could be better in antiquity — and today — than relaxing at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Excavation in Salzburg, Austria, ahead of a new residential development unearthed a Roman villa from the second or third century C ...

An excavation in Senon, France, unearthed three amphorae full of ancient Roman coins that had been buried under the floor of what was once a living room. This region of France was once populated by a ...