Picture this: archaeologists digging on a quiet, sun-soaked hill in southern Spain, expecting maybe a few pottery shards, and ...

Ancient Roman villa with frescoes is discovered beneath a high school gym near Rome's Colosseum after students brought ...

This Silicon Valley-backed venture is unraveling the mangled remains of scrolls ruined by the 79 C.E. eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Herculaneum and Pompeii ...

A crew of Dutch researchers have made strides in translating the spell laid out on a recently-surfaced Roman curse tablet.

Students at a high school in Rome stumbled upon a well-preserved villa that dates to the mid-second century C.E. Eventually, ...

The Heerlen curse tablet features an ancient Greek invocation of deities and demons in the Egyptian style. A tiny curse ...

A student lock-in led to an incredible archaeological find that proved long-standing rumors to be true.

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered 1,700-year-old ancient Roman statues in a "once-in-a-lifetime discovery". The figures ...

Ancient ‘magical’ tablet with spells to harm enemies discovered - Scientists intrigued by strange use of language in the ...