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TAG: ancient Rome

  • Features January/February 2026

    The Cost of Doing Business

    Piecing together the Roman empire’s longest known inscription—a peculiarly precise inventory of prices

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    A digital reconstruction shows how the Civil Basilica in the city of Aphrodisias in southwestern Anatolia would have appeared with the Edict of Maximum Prices inscribed on its facade.
    Ece Savaş and Philip Stinson

  • Digs & Discoveries November/December 2025

    Fossil Force

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    Adolfo Fernández-Fernández

  • Digs & Discoveries March/April 2021

    More Vesuvius Victims

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    Courtesy Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei

  • Digs & Discoveries November/December 2015

    How Much Water Reached Rome?

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    (Courtesy Duncan Keenan-Jones, University of Glasgow)

  • Digs & Discoveries May/June 2012

    The Persistence of Brucellosis

    The skeletal remains of two adolescent males found at Butrint, a Roman colony in Albania, indicate that both suffered from fatal cases of brucellosis. The chronic respiratory disease, which is typically contracted from contaminated meat or dairy products, today affects roughly 500,000 people per year worldwide.

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  • Digs & Discoveries March/April 2012

    Roman Bath Tiles

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    (Courtesy Matthew Koutsoumannis)

  • Features January/February 2012

    Gladiator Gym Goes Virtual

    Carnuntum, Austria

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  • Features July 1, 2011

    Assisi's Roman Villa

    A surprise discovery under a medieval Italian town square.

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  • Digs & Discoveries January 1, 2011

    Heads Won, Tales Lost

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