The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD famously destroyed the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, burying them under ...

The Roman Empire, once the dominant force in the Western world, built structures that have withstood the ravages of time for ...

A well-preserved Ancient Roman wooden water pipe was recently uncovered in an unexpected place: the marshlands of Belgium. The discovery was announced by the city of Leuven, a city east of ...

The Kon Tum Wooden Cathedral in the Central Highland province of Kon Tum is considered a wooden masterpiece, built in a Roman style. The cathedral is the harmonious combination of a church style and ...

A wooden, phallus-shaped object found in a Roman fort in northern England may have been an 1,800-year-old sex toy, archaeologists have revealed. The six-and-one-half-inches-long carving was found ...

Archaeologists working on the route of the HS2 high-speed railway have found an "extremely rare" wooden figure made during the Roman period.