It sounds awful to a modern person, but it seems the Romans did not complain about the smell of the ancient city that much.

In 1911, residents celebrating the Water Carnival in Woonsocket could take a spin around Lake Prior on the Carnival Queen, a flat-bottom boat that carried about 20 people. It was all part of a summer ...

Bodies, potentially decaying, were a more common sight in ancient Rome than now. Suetonius, writing in the first century CE, ...

Mangled bones found at a one-time manufacturing facility pinpoint species used to make a quintessential condiment.

Roman salting plants processed fish so thoroughly that researchers struggle to identify the species once used in ancient ...

Bones found at the site of an ancient fish-processing plant were used to genetically identify the species that went into a ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers, including archaeologists, have analyzed the DNA of fish remains from Roman fish ...

Drinking days-old leftover wine is fine if you store it right. Then there's storing your wine so well it may still be drinkable after hundreds of years.