Researchers in Bulgaria think the artifact could offer a window into ancient tensions around the rise of Christianity. By Amelia Nierenberg Reporting from London Archaeologists in Bulgaria made an ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Leslie Katz covers the intersection of culture, science and tech. Archaeologists excavating an ancient Roman sewer last week made ...

At one point, the Roman Empire reached from one end of the European continent to the other. Roman cultural heritage similarly spread across the territory, sometimes erasing what was once in its place.

A rare marble statue from the Roman period has been unearthed in an ancient city that was devastated by earthquakes around 1,600 years ago. The "exceptionally preserved" statue was found in the sewage ...

For a city in the hinterlands of the Roman Empire, attaining eleutheria was highly coveted. The word means liberty in Greek and granted a city the right to run its own administrative and legal affairs ...

Construction workers came across an "exceptionally preserved" marble statue during a job in the city of Varna in Bulgaria. The Varna Regional Museum of History announced the find in a Facebook post on ...

A lot of the time, great discoveries happen by a complete accident. At least, that was the case in Bulgaria last week when a crew of archaeologists unexpectedly unearthed a centuries-old artifact ...

A marble statue of a woman believed to be more than 2,000 years old was found abandoned in a garbage bag near the Greek city of Thessaloniki, police said Wednesday. A resident discovered the ...