In ancient Rome, laundry work was not for the ... Despite the unpleasantness, this process yielded clean and refreshed clothing for Roman customers. For the workers, known as fullones, the job ...

Nearly two decades ago, researchers discovered a large tomb complex in Spain dating to between 3,200 and 2,200 years ago. The ...

The Lycurgus Cup, an ancient Roman feat of pioneering nanotechnology in the fourth century exhibited at the British Museum. Credit: The British Museum/ X (formerly Twitter) The mysterious Lycurgus Cup ...

Archaeologists searching for a rumored Roman estate in Neckargartach unearthed an ancient Roman highway and roadside town with a temple. Photo from Matthias Göden, LAD/ArchaeoConnect GmbH A ...

Babies were weaned earlier in cities in the Roman Empire than in smaller and more rural communities, according to a study of ancient teeth. Urban weaning patterns more closely hewed to guidelines ...

Meet the designers showing for the first time at NYFW this season—before they take over your social media feeds and the ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered the secrets of how Romans preferred their wine two thousand years ago. It is widely known that the ancient Romans really liked wine. It was part of their stories and ...

The coins include depictions of nine Roman emperors who ruled between 364 ... because it is extremely rare to be able to study in its entirety an ancient monetary deposit in its archaeological ...

The Greek document details a court case in ancient Palestine involving tax fraud and provides insight into trial preparations in the Roman Empire Sonja Anderson The 404 coins, including 44 from ...

The Roman God of Justice was called Justitia and she holds the scales of justice. The Tarpeian Rock was a steep cliff in ancient Rome. It was commonly used during the Roman Republic as an ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/27129164 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/27129164 The Mediterranean climate presented the ancient Romans with both too much water and too ...