New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world.

The streets of Rome once erupted into a festival so wild it turned the empire's rigid world upside ...

The people of ancient Rome didn’t have access to modern science, but they still developed complex – and incredibly intuitive ...

The Sabines, a Spartan tribe, shaped the early Romans with their martial skill, social order, and lasting cultural and religious influence.

Archaeologists discovered rare Roman relics at Bremenium Fort in northern England, including 2,000-year-old preserved fruit, ...

We tend to think about people in the past as more prudish and strict about sex and gender. But really people have been experimenting with sex and gender for as long as humans have existed. In the ...

A flipped Roman glass cup revealed symbols once thought decorative but now understood as ancient makers’ marks. In the quiet atmosphere of a museum gallery, Hallie Meredith noticed an unexpected ...

Italy's Ministry of Culture told CNN that the treasure "represents one of the most important discoveries of numismatic finds in recent years” Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has ...