In 2014, workers building the restaurant on the outskirts of Rome stumbled upon an ancient Roman road. Such finds can usually halt the construction process, but in this case, "McDonald's ...

Edward Watts is a historian at the University of California San Diego and the author of two books on ancient Rome. One, from 2018, is called Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell Into Tyranny ...

These concerns are not new. Millennia ago, people in ancient Greece and Rome already knew humans were damaging the natural world. Literature from these ancient times contains many references to ...

the book examines the evolution of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day Alexa Robles-Gil The votive plaque was found amid the ruins of an ancient Roman fortress.

Saira Mueller is the interim culture editor at Polygon. She is fascinated by health and technology and has written about it for CNN, Wired, Mashable, and Self. After playing the new city-builder ...

“That technological advance allowed them to, first of all, build Rome as it is ... a scanning electron image of an ancient Roman concrete sample with lime clast, highlighted in red; Dr. Masic ...

Did you know Microsoft has a new Windows XP Bliss wallpaper, updated in 4K quality to match today’s standards? Yesterday, when I made a post on X about Windows XP’s 23rd birthday, I was ...

a historian and podcaster who studies ancient Greece and Rome. But if the library is located, it will be “a profound revolution in the classics.” What good is a library if it can’t be read?

An ancient slab of seafloor that was around when Earth’s earliest known dinosaurs emerged has been discovered beneath the Pacific Ocean, where it has seemingly hovered in a sort of mid-dive for ...

Nov. 7, 2024 — Researchers have used ancient DNA to challenge long-held interpretations of the people of Pompeii. Contrary to physical appearances, the DNA evidence revealed unexpected ...

Alexander Rome Griffin - a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Lancaster University - put it succinctly: “The premise of Hancock’s theory is as follows: an ancient race of educated and advanced ...