Primarily, the compass was used for geomancy for a long time before it was used for navigation Ancient Chinese alchemists realized that the magnetite ore would point towards a magnetic north. Their ...

Two ancient Roman bronze dodecahedrons and an icosahedron (3rd c. AD) in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn, Germany. (Credit: Kleon3, Wikimedia) As the Norton Disney History and Archaeology ...

Pier Paolo Petrone In 79 C.E., Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the nearby ancient Roman city of Pompeii and the smaller town of Herculaneum under deadly layers of volcanic ash, pumice and ...

Defined by the men in their lives, women in ancient Rome were valued mainly as ... Not much information exists about Roman women in the first century. Women were not allowed to be active in ...

In the ancient Roman world, which I study, biological sex and gender expression did not always line up as neatly as the president is demanding to see in today’s government. In antiquity ...

An ancient Roman scroll has been read for the first time since it was charred in the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius two millennia ago, thanks to artificial intelligence and a high-powered X ...

The ongoing excavations at the Archaeological Park of Pompeii unveil remarkable insights into ancient Roman construction techniques. In the heart of Region IX, insula 10, archaeologists have ...