The trading power of the vast Roman empire meant spices could be sourced from India and the surrounding regions. There were warehouses for storing spices such as pepper, cinnamon and myrrh in the ...

DNA from a Roman salting site in Spain reveals sardines were the key fish used in garum, the famous sauce rooted in Greek and ...

Worse yet, trade generated wealth outside of the direct control of the landholding elites who dominated politics in nearly every ancient society. Yet the Roman Empire benefited greatly from ...

A team of researchers has managed to extract and sequence DNA from fish remains found in an ancient Roman salting factory in ...

The largest collection of Roman coins found in Spain is now on exhibit. The museum display features 50,000 ancient coins from ...

When tariffs were used in Ancient Rome, they often led to higher prices, ... About 50 million sesterces a year, he reckoned, was spent on trade from India alone. In reality, ...

This is what a surgical clinic looked like in ancient Rome. Discovered on accident in Rimini, Italy, ... This would explain the presence of objects outside the city’s typical trading circles.

Bones found at the site of an ancient fish-processing plant were used to genetically identify the species that went into a ...

Mangled bones found at a one-time manufacturing facility pinpoint species used to make a quintessential condiment.

Avoid Taxes in Ancient Rome?: A manuscript discovered in the Judean desert contains trial notes on an intricate tax-evasion scheme that involved forgery, fiscal fraud and the false sale of slaves.