A remarkably preserved Roman shipwreck, the Ses Fontanelles, has been recovered off Mallorca after meticulous excavations.

For most people, pollen is just an irritating allergen. But archaeologists recently used centuries-old specks of the stuff found within the waterproofing pitch on an ancient Roman ship to uncover the ...

A laboratory study of a Roman Republican shipwreck off the Croatian island of Ilovik has turned a routine conservation ...

Here's what you’ll learn when you read this story: Excavation in Salzburg, Austria, ahead of a new residential development unearthed a Roman villa from the second or third century C.E. and a rare ...

In Pliny the Elder’s Natural History, the Roman scholar described how the Empire used a unique organic mixture to keep boats waterproof. By tracking something atypical from a 2,200-year-old shipwreck, ...