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

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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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 ...

When excavators stepped into a half-finished living room in Pompeii, they were not just walking into a frozen renovation, they were entering a 2,000‑year‑old construction workshop that still held its ...

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," ...

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 ...