Vandals destroyed a field school excavation by Southern Illinois University students and stole equipment from a large, locked storage box at the site. British army officer cadets will fire replicas of eighteenth-century weapons in order to assess their range and other capabilities. Scholars from Glasgow University will use the information to study the Battle of […]

The contents of a septic tank beneath an apartment building in Herculaneum have revealed much about the diet of the average Roman. “What we’ve found is a fantastically good snap shot of what the Romans were using in their kitchens, from pots and pans to glassware and broken cups,” said Andrew Wallace-Hadrill of the Herculaneum […]