A beautiful, remarkably well-preserved mosaic that was “hidden for thousands of years” has been uncovered by archaeologists in northwestern England. The mosaic, which features fish and dolphins, was ...

“Beauty is pain” was a maxim the Ancient Romans lived by. During near daily trips to communal bathhouses, Romans paid to have their skin scraped, ears scooped out, and body hair plucked. The ...

A group of archaeologists, students, and volunteers from four British organizations announced the discovery of a stunning mosaic depicting dolphins in the ruins of the Roman city of Wroxeter, near ...

Good taste is not a feature of a new Roman house that has risen, with much sweat and cursing, from a flat Shropshire field at the genuinely ancient Roman town site of Wroxeter: painted bright yellow ...

Long before the arrival of threading salons and products like Nair, the practice of hair removal was popular among the ancient Romans. The first-century philosopher Seneca even wrote of a professional ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Roman artefacts which experts believed for decades were pendants have been re-identified as make-up tools. They were mistaken for "lunate pendants" when they were last examined in the 1970s because of ...