The plant, which the Ancient Greeks called silphion (silphium), was a golden-flowered plant. It was once the most sought-after product in the Mediterranean even before the rise of Athens and the Roman ...

On the side of the coin on the left is the bearded head of a man facing right, wearing a crested helmet on top of head, small dots surround the border; below, the characters: V X. The other side of ...

Archaeologists have discovered a "unique" ancient Roman drinking vessel ... "We sometimes find Roman coins and other small metal scraps in Anglo-Saxon burials, often interpreted as having a ...

German archaeologists spent years trying to read a fragile silver scroll found inside the amulet. They finally succeeded.

The front of this coin portrays the Emperor Tiberius facing right and wearing a crown of laurels. He is encircled by the inscription TICAESARDIVI AUGFAUGUSTUS and a partial border of dots. On the back ...

I think it’s got to be small, and I admit to you that that’s a judgment call,” he said. Jews had a complex and rocky relationship with ancient Rome, which went through several iterations in ...

Ancient Greek art spans a period between about 900 and 30 BCE and is divided into four periods: Geometric, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic. Throughout that period, artists worked with a wide ...

One of archaeology’s most fascinating mysteries began a new chapter when amateur archaeologists in England found a large Roman dodecahedron — one of 130 of the 12-sided ancient objects known ...

The spread of Christianity was made a lot easier by the efficiency of the Roman Empire ... This meant taking a more relaxed approach to ancient Jewish laws about food and circumcision.