Across the ancient Mediterranean, few conditions were known to be as acutely painful as bladder stones. The accumulation of ...

Archaeologists exploring the Roman-era ruins of Heraclea Sintica in southwestern Bulgaria have made an exceptionally rare ...

Ancient Roman and Greek surgical instruments(1-9):; 1) Blunt hook, bronze, encrusted. Roman; 2) Surgical dissector. Bronze, encrusted, right angle hook on either end; 3) No information; 4) Probe or ...

ROME — When archaeologist Giovanni Carboni first came upon the oddly shaped ceramic object during an excavation in a Roman suburb in 2006, he was baffled. “I said — please don’t write this, though, ...