ROME, Dec 5 (Reuters) - While slaves in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii were considered no more than "speaking tools", some ...

New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world.

Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.

The streets of Rome once erupted into a festival so wild it turned the empire's rigid world upside ...

The people of ancient Rome didn’t have access to modern science, but they still developed complex – and incredibly intuitive ...

(The Conversation) — There may have been fear of gender-diverse people in the ancient world, but they played a crucial role. In Rome, they were viewed as vital to the city’s safety. (The Conversation) ...

Italy's Ministry of Culture told CNN that the treasure "represents one of the most important discoveries of numismatic finds in recent years” Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has ...

An excavation in Turkey has yielded not just artifacts — it's yielded millennia-old recipes that are bringing the flavors of Ancient Rome back to life. Archaeologists in Turkey recently completed digs ...

We tend to think about people in the past as more prudish and strict about sex and gender. But really people have been experimenting with sex and gender for as long as humans have existed. In the ...

Croatia is home to the world's only Roman palace that people still live inside, 1700 years after it was first constructed.

All roads may have once led to Rome — but those roads stretched 50% longer than previously known, according to a new digital atlas published this week. The study, called Itiner-e, mapped nearly ...