A common whiff in the Roman city would have come from the animals and the waste they created. Roman bakeries frequently used ...

Mangled bones found at a one-time manufacturing facility pinpoint species used to make a quintessential condiment.

DNA from a Roman salting site in Spain reveals sardines were the key fish used in garum, the famous sauce rooted in Greek and ...

Ancient Rome produced the longest-lasting empire in human history. It wasn’t the biggest – that was the British Empire. It wasn’t even the largest in terms of land mass – that was the vast ...