The roughly 11,000 inscriptions preserved by Mount Vesuvius' eruption in 79 C.E. offer a glimpse into everyday life in the ...

Part station, part museum, two new subway stops in Rome offer riders the chance to see ancient artifacts unearthed in digging ...

In the 18th and 19th centuries, biblical scholars interested in parallels between ancient religious belief systems argued ...

A study of ancient skeletons shows that living in Roman cities harmed health in England, especially for babies and mothers.

From river rinses to oil-and-strigil scrapes, ancient grooming mixed health, ritual, and social life into daily survival. in ...

Excavations of an ancient construction site in Pompeii have revealed the process of how Romans mixed their self-healing concrete.

Romans living in ancient Britain were plagued by intestinal parasites, all of which are spread by fecal contamination ...

A seemingly simple question opens up difficult debates about ancient Roman beauty ideals and social hierarchy, and reveals ...

Roundworms are eight- to 12-inches-long and live in the intestines, They can cause abdominal pain, fever, and diarrhea. The types of roundworms typically in humans include pinworms and ascariasis, but ...

Victims at Pompeii wore heavy tunics and woollen cloaks as they fled rocky volcanic fragments and gas thrown into the air, ...

Sharaa, a former Al Qaeda ally, is now president of Syria. We look at his transformation, and whether he can transform his ...

We know, we know - history can seem like a dud. Learning about people who aren't even on this Earth anymore - their birth, ...