The timber roof and wooden coffered ceiling of part of a Roman villa thought to have once belonged to Marcus Nonius Balbus, a wealthy governor, has been reconstructed at Herculaneum. Some 250 roof pieces of the House of the Telephus Relief survived because they had been buried in wet beach sand and the hardened ash […]

Several unfinished millstones were found carved into slabs of granite in a boggy area of Ireland’s County Donegal by hikers. The circles of the stones had been marked and chiseled, but some had cracked before completely separated from the parent rock. Others had a hole bored into the center. Fourteen large storage jars filled with 3,300-year-old […]