Archaeologists led by University of Missouri professor Marcello Mogetta have uncovered a massive stone-lined water basin in the ancient Roman city of Gabii, just eleven miles east of Rome. Built ...

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In regards to the basin, it likely had a ceremonial use, based on finds of pottery and oil lamps discovered very nearby.

One of the Mamluk-era tunnels carved into tufa rock at Nahal 'Amal, revealing the sophisticated hydraulic engineering that powered medieval sugar production. (Azriel Yechezkel / A. Frumkin et al., ...

Stories of ancient Roman artifacts and ruins being dug up in back gardens or disrupting construction projects are common. It seems that a British pensioner can hardly dig a new plot for potatoes, nor ...

NEW ORLEANS — A New Orleans family cleaning up their overgrown backyard made an extremely unusual find: Under the weeds was a mysterious marble tablet with Latin characters that included the phrase ...

Daniella Santoro, a PhD candidate at Tulane University, never expected to find an ancient Roman gravestone in her backyard, but that’s exactly what happened one day in March as her husband was doing ...