Beneath the soil in Cologne, Germany, lies a bibliophile's dream: an ancient Roman library that once held up to 20,000 scrolls, according to news reports. Archaeologists discovered the epic structure ...

The Herculaneum papyri are among the greatest unsolved puzzles in Roman archaeology. Burned by Vesuvius and sealed for nearly ...

Archaeologists have identified a room within the Roman villa of Fuente Álamo, near Puente Genil in Córdoba, as the oldest confirmed library on the Iberian Peninsula. A team from the University of ...

The structure used to host an estimated 20,000 scrolls and was defined as a “spectacular” find. Initially, archaeologists thought that the niches used to host statues. But soon enough it became ...

Using an innovative approach, scientists reevaluated a room thought to be a cult shrine, finding more evidence that this was actually a rare library. Reading time 2 minutes Despite extensive records ...

When the Romans expanded across Europe 2,000 years ago, they made inroads into almost every corner of the continent, fighting as far away as Scotland and sending its coins to what today is Estonia.

A previously unknown copy of the earliest surviving poem in the English language has been discovered in the National Central Library of Rome. The rediscovered manuscript is a version of Historia ...