Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. two worn roman coins in copper and silver Archaeologists are baffled but excited by the discovery of two silver coins from the ...

KOSTOLAC, Serbia (Reuters) - Archaeologists in Serbia are painstakingly brushing sand and soil off the ancient woodwork of a Roman ship discovered by miners in a vast opencast coal quarry. After an ...

A new study of a 2,200-year-old Roman shipwreck reveals that ancient sailors used sophisticated organic coatings to waterproof their vessels.

1 Archaeologists near Kostalac, Serbia, painstakingly brush sand and soil off the woodwork of an ancient Roman ship on August 2. The ship was discovered by an excavator crew at the Drmno mine. It is ...

Flecks of pollen embedded in the ship’s ancient waterproofing material contained evidence of the ship’s many stops along the Adriatic Sea.

In 468, the Roman Empire launched a massive naval expedition against the Vandals in North Africa. The plan was meant to restore Roman power, but it turned into one of the greatest disasters in ancient ...

Workers at a coal quarry in a small Serbian village have stumbled on the ancient remains of a Roman ship dating to the 3rd or 4th century C.E. An excavator was digging at the mine in Drmno, near ...

The Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday the discovery of remnants of two shipwrecks off the Mediterranean coast, replete with a sunken trove of hundreds Roman and medieval silver coins.

Divers and archaeologists removed ancient Roman pottery from a sunken ship in Spain and found unique numerals on the wood, a museum said. Photo from the Catalan Archaeology Museum For centuries, an ...

In what was one of the greatest decoration flexes in ancient Roman design, a wealthy resident of Iuvavum—now modern-day Salzburg, Austria—in the second or third century C.E. had a bronze replica of a ...

The wreckage of a Roman ship that sunk more than 2,000 years ago was discovered off the Italian coast near Rome. The cargo ship was found on a seabed off the port in Civitavecchia, which is about 50 ...

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 ...