A genomic analysis of people buried on the border of the ancient Roman Empire show how distinct groups combined after the ...
Flecks of pollen embedded in the ship’s ancient waterproofing material contained evidence of the ship’s many stops along the ...
A woman's skull, approximately 1,400 years old, discovered during the excavation of her grave in what is now Ergoldsbach. Using a tiny bone fragment from the skull, palaeogeneticists at JGU ...
We’re giving the Romans a little too much credit.
An ancient Roman merchant ship, submerged for over two millennia off Ilovik, has revealed secrets of Roman seafaring.
Modern analytical tools are no less than a time machine. From their 21st-century labs, researchers can peer into the everyday ...
About 2,200 years ago, a Roman Republic ship sank off the coast of modern-day Croatia, with wood and amphorae (ancient ...
Burials that date to just after the fall of the Roman Empire are revealing the secrets of people who lived on the Roman ...
Work out the math on that timeline, and you come to an unexpected conclusion: that Cleopatra lived closer to us today than ...
Chamber pots from the frontier of the Roman Empire have provided the world's earliest evidence of humans infected with the ...
The story behind what happened to Roman civilisation was revealed by reading the DNA of the dead.
For the first time, scientists analyze the massive Roman vessels of Ostia, finding chemical traces of fish sauce and advanced ...