Greek Reporter

Archaeologists in Alexandria Reveal Hidden Greek and Roman City Beneath Modern Streets

Archaeologists in Alexandria have uncovered an ancient Greek public bathhouse and a Roman villa featuring intricate mosaic ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Roman chamber pots yield the world’s oldest evidence of Cryptosporidium parasite in humans

Sometime during the Roman Empire, residents of two garrison towns along the lower Danube relieved themselves into squat ...
Ancient Origins

Rare Imperial Purple Cloth Discovered in Roman Infant Burials in York

The discovery of traces of rare Tyrian purple dye in the gypsum burials of two infants in Roman York has shed exciting new ...

In 1942, Gordon Butcher struck something mid-plough and discovered a hoard of Roman silver hidden for over a millennium

In 1942, Gordon Butcher accidentally unearthed the Mildenhall Treasure, a hoard of Roman silver that reveals the opulence of ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Dead Bodies Filled a Mass Grave When the First Plague Pandemic Struck This Early Medieval City. New Research Explores the Identity of the Victims

Researchers analyzed isotopes and DNA in the teeth of remains found in a mass grave from the Plague of Justinian, which swept ...

Rare Tyrian purple reveals elite Roman infant burials in York

Two infants buried in Roman York were laid to rest in costly purple cloth normally reserved for emperors and members of the ...

Long-lost warship destroyed by iconic naval commander discovered centuries later: 'Quite remarkable'

Danish archaeologists uncovered remains of the Dannebroge, a ship battered by Admiral Nelson's forces during the 1801 Battle ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN

A metal detectorist stumbled upon a silver coin. It turned out to be part of a stash buried during the Viking invasion of Britain

On a summer morning in 2022, dozens of people gathered in a field in the English village of Bickmarsh, many with metal ...

Roman cup unearthed in Spain may have been a keepsake representing a soldier's time at the Hadrian Wall

Archaeologists recently analyzed a broken, decorative cup found unexpectedly on a Spanish farm. The cup appears to represent ...

Genome study reveals what happened after the Roman Empire fell

The fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD was a pivotal moment in human history, when Germanic chieftain Odoacer deposed ...
Scientific American

What happened after the fall of Rome? Ancient genomes offer new clues

A genomic analysis of people buried on the border of the ancient Roman Empire show how distinct groups combined after the ...
Live Science

'Lifelong monogamy' and 'half orphans': DNA analysis reveals clues about life on the Roman frontier after the fall of Rome

A new DNA analysis of more than 200 skeletons in these cemeteries uncovered clues about the people who lived on the Roman frontier between 400 and 700. For example, many people en ...