Celebrity classicist Mary Beard turns sleuth in an entertaining account of the long afterlife of twelve emperors

Archaeologists in Pompeii have discovered a 2,000-year-old well-preserved frescoed fast food counter used by the Romans, reports said. The discovery was...

The number of visitors to the ancient city of Dara has quintupled in the past two years as more intriguing historical finds have been uncovered in archaeological digs over the past 33 years.

Plans are afoot to map the whole of England using LiDAR by 2020

A chapel only accessible through a hidden passage has been discovered during the restoration of historic Sümela Monastery in Turkey's northern Trabzon...

Archaeologists have discovered a number of Roman shipwrecks lying on the seabed off the northern coast of Egypt in the harbor city of Alexandria. Among the

New archaeological evidence reveals Julius Caesar's most likely landing spot during the 54 BCE invasion of Britain – Pegwell Bay on the Isle of Thanet in n

So I found these maps recently of the Roman Empire. The first has some interesting details about the Roman provinces in general while the second is far more detailed and carefully constructed. If y…

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Do you have a dog waterspout??

It looks like it was made in India to me by the design.

8,068 Likes, 25 Comments - A Map A Day (@amapaday) on Instagram: “A Perfect Grid: the Roman Town of Timgad, the African Pompeii in modern day Algeria. ➖ “The city of…”

Trajan's Speech

History Origin (@historyorigin) “Cavalry officer and legionary soldier. - 350"

A wealth of ancient military objects recovered from a naval battle site of the First Punic War, off the coast of Sicily.

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