Medical treatment in ancient Rome was both horrifically ... of Exeter have shone new light on some of the medical instruments used by Roman surgeons more than 2,000 years ago in Britain.

They were, in fact, a hardworking group of Philadelphia professionals, called the American Society of the Ancient Instruments, and last week they were giving their 17th annual festival in the ...

Among the items are sandals, pottery and Britain's largest collection of Roman writing tablets, bearing IOU notes and gossip ...

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology.

The samples are from the wooden poles of the pier of an ancient Roman harbor discovered during ... contribute to the development of mobile NMR instruments. NMR instruments are getting smaller ...