Nero, who ruled from A.D. 54 to 68, is often remembered as one of history’s most notorious emperors, his reputation steeped in tales of excess and cruelty. One enduring myth claims that as a great ...

The house is striking for the high level of wall decorations. It has been provisionally named the House of Phaedra after the ...

The votive plaque was found amid the ruins of an ancient Roman fortress. Researchers think a temple dedicated to the mysterious deity may have stood nearby ...

Recent excavations uncovered a Roman monument at the Open-Air Museum of the Roman villa of Hechingen-Stein, Germany. The ...

A recently excavated house contains at least four paintings including an artistic depiction of copulation between a satyr and a nymph.

Remember that a 1990 Federal law (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act) protects Native American remains. Please be respectful of all indigenous sites in NWLA.

Archaeologists found the pillar by chance during the summer excavation season in 2023 while they were searching for the ...

In its announcement of the house’s excavation this week, the Pompeii Archaeological Park compared the little domicile to the ...

The pomegranate is one of the world’s oldest fruits, and one plant is growing and producing in the Garden Creek area of ...

In 2014, workers building the restaurant on the outskirts of Rome stumbled upon an ancient Roman road. Such finds can usually halt the construction process, but in this case, "McDonald's ...

Edward Watts is a historian at the University of California San Diego and the author of two books on ancient Rome. One, from 2018, is called Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell Into Tyranny ...

SJU Ancient History students Kyle Nienaber, Ian Beltoff, and Holden Smith presented well-received papers interrogating the ...