Archaeologists in Belgium just unearthed the astonishingly intact remains of an ancient Roman dog. While digging among the ...

It's unclear how these humans and animals died ... such as the use of lapdogs, or even dog sacrifice, but they also had very non-Roman characteristics, such as messing with bodies after death ...

Roman worship was divided into the public ... or would carry out a ritual sacrifice of an animal before eating it. The Romans believed that their gods or spirits were actively involved in their ...

The smoke and smells of animal fat burning on open altars regularly filled the fora and nearby streets. Roman religious festivals required a daily blood sacrifice of at least one bull or some other ...

A recent study by Dr. Ellen Green, published in the International Journal of Paleopathology, analyzed the faunal assemblage ...