Amateur archaeologists discovered a gold coin in a field, leading to a full-fledged search that revealed 141 Roman-era gold coins ... to study in its entirety an ancient monetary deposit in ...

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Shortly after Musk made the gesture, the term "Roman salute" started trending online. While it appears similar to the Nazi salute associated with Adolf Hitler, the gesture has ancient roots.

But the citrus genus has a surprising history, popping up everywhere from ancient Rome and the Renaissance to naval exploration and Casanova's famed romantic trysts. The history of citrus dates ...

Ruins on the Palatine Hill in Rome. Credit: Lalupa / Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 Many people are familiar with the legend of Romulus and Remus, which supposedly explains the origin of the ancient ...

The discovery of ancient artifacts in surprising places is ... shared the same habitat and possibly interacted. The Reach of Roman Celebrity: A 2,000-year-old copper knife handle that was found ...

They uncovered a rare late-Roman-era boundary stone with a Greek inscription, dating back approximately 1,720 years. The find sheds new light on ancient land ownership and taxation practices ...

This type of artificial pigment dates back over 5,000 years to ancient Egypt and was popular in the Roman Empire. The block of blue pigment measured about 6 inches tall and weighed just over 5 ...