The Eastern and Western Roman Empires had a layered history, experienced a major division, and left lasting cultural and ...

Classical archaeologist Michael Guggenberger, who has published several studies on the objects, described them in a 2000 ...

There are more than 50 theories for the function of this 12-sided, pentagonal-faced bronze object — but archaeologists have never quite figured it out.

Historian Adrian Goldsworthy reveals the brutal training, bureaucratic grind and uncertain rewards of life in the Roman ...

According to LiveScience, it was in 1739 when a strange, 12-sided bronze object was first discovered in the English Midlands.

Roman dodecahedrons have puzzled researchers since their first discovery in 1739. These twelve-faced bronze objects have been found in various regions of the Roman Empire, with their ...

A puzzle enthusiast from the United States is now the owner of the world’s largest collection of jigsaw puzzles, with a ...

A recent drought in Spain uncovered a 7,000-year-old megalithic monument, older than Egypt's pyramids. Rating: Mixture (About ...

Archaeologists, in particular, have a knack for unearthing secrets about humanity’s past. One such discovery was recently ...

The destruction and safeguarding of Gaza’s cultural heritage are the themes of a new exhibition that opened in Paris earlier ...

The city was created as an idealised model of Rome and was the capital of Lusitania, the western-most province of the Roman Empire. Following Diocletian’s reform, it functioned as the capital of the ...

Although its great boom occurred in the 16th century, the drive to travel the known world and discover new lands was ...