Archaeologists in southwestern France have uncovered a Roman cremation site so lavish that it forces a rethink of how wealth, status, and memory were displayed on the fringes of the empire. At the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the items found in a grave was a figurine [Oxford Archaeology] The excavation of one of the largest Roman cemeteries in the ...

In a new article in Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, “Drinking with the Dead: Libation Conduits from Rome’s Columbaria to the Cortile at the American Academy in Rome,” Liana examines ancient ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a Roman-era cemetery in England with the unique burial of a “high-status individual” encased in liquid gypsum at its centre. Researchers found that the central grave ...

Archaeologists in Germany’s Bavaria have unearthed an elaborately constructed but empty circular stone grave they suspect to be an “extremely rare” Roman-era burial mound. The stone circle was ...

Archaeologists excavating an early Roman imperial tomb in Turkey have uncovered evidence of unusual funerary practices. Instead of the typical method of being cremated on a funeral pyre and the ...

Construction crews weren’t expecting to make headlines when they broke ground near the village of Wolkertshofen in Bavaria. The project was just a new water retention basin, and a standard one at that ...

Archaeologists have found bent nails, lime, and brick near a Roman burial site. These may have been charms to stop the restless dead from interfering with the living, they said. There are signs in ...