Archaeologists excavating the Porta Sarno necropolis in Pompeii, Italy, discovered life-sized statues of a man and woman as ...

Archaeologists uncovered two life-size statues of a couple in a Pompeii necropolis dated to Rome’s Late Republican period.

The victim, who was crushed by an enormous stone while trying to escape, is the latest in a series of discoveries at a ...

Which is why the recent discovery of a monumental tomb crowned by life-size sculptures of a woman and man, just outside the gates on the east side of the town, isn’t just a fascinating find in and of ...

The Roman Empire has never ceased to fascinate the world, even after the fall of its western half 1½ millennia ago. And with ...

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Minoan Greece had fast food 3,600 years ago, with food stalls serving dishes like souvlaki, a beloved Greek staple still popular today.

City-building can be an exhausting affair, once you’ve evolved beyond the initial joy of cottage windows lighting up ...

At the start, “I had no idea people made money from this,” Chun, known to her million Instagram followers as @ourhome.becoming, told me recently when I visited her in the house that made her famous: a ...

When tariffs were used in Ancient Rome, they often led to higher prices, black markets and other economic problems, Peter ...

Relying on leeks, potatoes, and a Pompeiian baking technique, Irina Georgescu finds culinary inspiration east of the Danube ...

Unfortunately for the Romans, however, these tariffs often led to higher prices, black markets and other economic problems.