In ancient Greece people enjoyed chilled wine at social gatherings, using specially designed cooling pots called psykter.

A skeleton recovered from a Roman-era cemetery in England may mark the first physical evidence of combat between gladiators ...

This week, a string of archaeological studies lend insight into Roman gladiators, an ancient crocodile-like beast, and a ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

Researchers compared puncture marks on an 1,800-year-old skeleton in the UK to various animal bites, and concluded that the ...

Skeletal remains in a Roman burial ground in northern England were found to have lesions that looked suspiciously like bite ...

A medieval cemetery discovered by archaeologists last year has amazed researchers as they've unveiled its secrets. The site, ...

Celts drank Greek wine according to a recent study of ceramic containers which have been excavated from a hillfort site in ...