The mysterious Lycurgus Cup is a convincing artifact indicating that, possibly unbeknownst to them, the ancient Romans used nanotechnology.

An ancient Pompeii wall at a newly excavated site, where Associate Professor Admir Masic applied compositional analysis (overlayed to right) to understand how ancient Romans made concrete that has ...

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," goes the saying we've all heard and paraphrased one way or another when talking about the past, current events, and even personal ...

Wax tablets were among the oldest writing media, and scientists have recently uncovered the secrets of their technology. In Ancient Rome, if you needed to write a letter, you wouldn't reach for ...

Archaeologists have long treated Rome’s roads as a marvel of ancient engineering, but new digital mapping shows the network ...

As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and those roads stretched 50% longer than previously known, according to a new digital atlas published Thursday. The last major atlas of ancient Roman ...

Along with its many other innovations, the Roman Empire revolutionized architecture with never-before-seen features, such as large-scale arches and dome roofs. And many of these structures still stand ...