Roman soldier Sextus Congenius Verus was buried 1,900 years ago in Italy. So how did his grave marker end up in a backyard in ...

The Attingham Estate in England has long been a hotbed of archaeology, and the National Trust recently opened the site to ...

In the autumn of 105 BC, the Battle of Arausio unfolded between mighty Roman legions, led by Quintus Servilius Caepio and ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the complete skeletal remains of seven Roman soldiers at the base of an ancient well in eastern ...

The tablet had been in an ancient cemetery of around 20 graves of military personnel, found in the 1860s in Civitavecchia, a ...

In this webinar Hugh will share his research on the thousands of giant skeletons that have been found in North America and look at the phenomenon based upon the written evidence in the academic record ...

When Spartacus hit theaters in 1960, audiences expected another grand sword-and-sandals spectacle with Roman armies, ...

If the founders of America had been forced to surrender in 1775, as the Judeans were in 63 BCE, and had continued to fight ...

Spain is a country where history breathes through cobbled streets, towering cathedrals, and ancient fortresses. From Roman ...

Pioneer American anthropologist Henry Lewis Morgan (1818-1881) wrote that societies developed (or evolved) through three distinct stages: savagery, barbarism and civilization. Cambridge University ...

Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Gortyna on the Greek island of Crete have made an unusual discovery: a life-size statue depicting a pig. The rare find, uncovered during July and August ...

A millennia-old helmet that saw ancient Rome's first great Mediterranean war was recently unearthed in Italy. The find was announced by the Sicilian regional government in a Sept. 5 announcement. In a ...