From river rinses to oil-and-strigil scrapes, ancient grooming mixed health, ritual, and social life into daily survival. in ...

New frescoes with "extraordinary details and colours" and new rooms have been unearthed in a villa on the suburbs of the ...

Pitt looked at 372 non-adult skeletons (mostly infants and toddlers) and 274 adult females from 24 different sites across ...

Part station, part museum, two new subway stops in Rome offer riders the chance to see ancient artifacts unearthed in digging ...

The vessels and coin hoards found by the reasearcher date from much later, around the late 3 rd to early 4 th century C.E.

F amed for its golden coastline and 300-plus annual days of sunshine, Portugal’s Algarve is a beloved beach getaway. Yet with ...

The roughly 11,000 inscriptions preserved by Mount Vesuvius' eruption in 79 C.E. offer a glimpse into everyday life in the ...

HOTELS: This Georgian mansion has all of the grandeur you’d expect from the area, but is delightfully un-fusty, says ...

A 'UNIQUE' Roman site has reported an 'amazing' year for finds, as its senior archaeologist explains the provenance and meaning ...

It was January 1801 when Jane Austen moved to Bath. Considered a spinster at the grand age of 25, she followed her family as they left the countryside for the southwestern city, where her parents had ...

The discovery of a 2,000-year-old building site in Pompeii reveals the raw ingredients for ancient Roman self-healing ...

Sussex has many historical spots, and this place described as a "gem" is home to one of the region's oldest schools.