The discovery prompted an international search to figure out how the ancient headstone made it to New Orleans.

In a remarkable twist of historical fate, a New Orleans couple unearthed a 2,000-year-old Roman tombstone in their backyard.

A rectangular stone, engraved with Latin writing, was discovered when a married couple were tending their garden.

Daniella Santoro, an anthropologist at Tulane University, and her husband Aaron Lorenz found the stone behind their home in ...

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Archaeologists in Germany’s Bavaria have unearthed an elaborately constructed but empty circular stone grave they suspect to ...

The discovery highlights previously unknown facts about the daily lives of ancient people. Scientists have deciphered a Roman boundary stone inscribed with Greek text which was recently discovered in ...

New research has revealed the Stone of Destiny, used for centuries in the coronation of monarchs, has previously unrecorded markings that appear to be Roman numerals. The details were discovered when ...

From the heart of the earth a magnificent Roman style temple roof rises built entirely by bare hands from solid stone every ...

Digging into the dry soil of a field in southern Germany, archaeologists hit some rocks and painstakingly unearthed a massive stone structure. They’d expected to find something at this site — but what ...