Although named for the Chinese silks that the Roman elite imported during the 1st ... commodities and currencies across the ancient world. While the connection between Europe and East Asia was ...

Experts believe they may have finally solved the centuries-old mystery of America's lost Roanoke colony through hidden details discovered in a 400-year-old map. A blank spot on the historic "La ...

According to a release from Museums Worcestershire, a trove of 1,368 silver and gold coins from the Iron Age and Ancient Rome were found by an anonymous metal detectorist searching an unnamed area ...

Archaeologists uncovered a boundary stone, used to mark land borders during the Roman Empire ... stone like this not only sheds light on ancient land ownership and taxation but also provides ...

Archaeologists in Rome have discovered beautiful, ancient paint—but not just any paint. Known as “Egyptian Blue,” it’s among the oldest synthetic pigments in the world, with the newly ...

View of ancient Rome. Public domain image from Yale Center for British Art. According to Roman mythology, the city of Rome was founded on April 21, 753 BCE, by Romulus, a half-god who vanquished ...

Egyptian Blue became widespread across the ancient world, with massive production centers in Amarna and Memphis, and during the Roman period it was traded extensively throughout the empire. Then, ...

The map, which shows activity from Dec. 22, 2024, through Jan. 21, 2025, shows a distinctive purple island around Basalt, between Carbondale and Aspen, in western Pitkin and southwest Eagle counties.

Weddell’s own journey to Rome to purchase the statue reflects the practice of Grand Tours across the cities of the ancient world, popular among young British aristocrats. A painter who ...