Medieval News

Here are some news stories from the medievalverse, and a few from beyond it... Crusader Feces An article in the International Journal o...

A long-delayed restoration of the Colosseum's only intact internal passageway has yielded ancient traces of red, black, green and blue f...

Archaeogists who have completed the excavation of a 900-seat arts centre under one of Rome's busiest roundabouts are calling it the most...

Iain Hollingshead reviews Rome's Lost Empire, BBC One's one-off documentary in which Dan Snow uses satellite technology to identify ...

The earliest depiction of Scottish tartan has been discovered – on a fragment of a Roman statue.  The bronze statue once stood on top of...

It's no tall tale—the first complete ancient skeleton of a person with gigantism has been discovered near Rome, a new study says. At ...

An archaeological city dating back 1,700 years has been unearthed during excavations in İzmir’s Kemalpaşa neighborhood, raising officials...

The Roman Empire was the world's first superpower and controlled millions of square miles at its height — everything between modern-da...

On March 15, 44 BC, a group of Roman senators set upon Julius Caesar in the Curia of Pompey. As they stabbed him with daggers, their murder ...

The British Museum will be featuring the ancient Roman world in an exhibition during the spring and summer of 2013. Life and death in Pompei...

A just-deciphered ancient Greek poem discovered in Egypt, deifies Poppaea Sabina, the wife of the infamous Roman emperor Nero, showing her...

Was “Spartacus” an anti-fascist polemic? Does “Agora” demonstrate the horrors of anti-science religious zealotry? Did the Trojans really ...

The ancient Colosseum of Rome, where gladiators fought for their lives, is slanting about 40 centimetres lower on the south side than on ...

A study has shown that the “Capitoline Wolf,” a bronze statue representing Ancient Rome's most famous symbol, was probably sculpted duri...

In ancient Roman times A.D., Palmyra was the most important point along the trade route linking the east and west, reaching a population of ...

The Israel Antiquities Authority reports they have uncovered a spectacular 2,000 year-old gold and silver hoard during an archaeological ...

Archaeologists of the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena found one of the oldest archaeological evidence so far of Jewish Culture on the Ib...

Emperor Hadrian, the famously cultured Hellophile, is probably spinning in his tomb by the banks of the Tiber.  If the current state of hi...

Imagine you’re in Rome, it’s 205 CE, and you’ve got to figure out the quickest way to transport wheat to Virunum, in what’s now Austria. Yo...

Evidence of ancient smuggling activity has emerged from a Roman shipwreck, according to Italian archaeologists who have investigated the ...