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

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

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 ...

Lead pollution likely dropped the average IQ in ancient Rome by 2.5 to 3 points, a study found. The research is based on an analysis of lead concentrations in ice cores extracted from Greenland.