During a family trip to the Negev Desert in Israel, an 8-year-old boy made an extraordinary discovery. While searching for “interesting things” among the stones, he came across a small fragment of an ancient figurine that had been lying in the desert for nearly 1,700 years. The find turned out to be an exceptionally rare artifact dating back to the 4th century CE, a time when the region was under the rule of the Roman Empire.

Archaeologists exploring the site of the former Roman city of Mursa in present-day Croatia have made a remarkable discovery. At the bottom of an ancient well, they found the skeletons of seven Roman soldiers who died nearly 1,800 years ago. Recent research suggests they may have perished during one of the most turbulent civil wars in the history of the Roman Empire.

Archaeologists in Scotland have made a remarkable discovery that once again demonstrates just how far north the Roman Empire reached. Beneath domestic gardens in the village of Bearsden, the remains of a previously unknown Roman military fort associated with the Antonine Wall – the empire’s northernmost frontier – have been discovered.

Archaeologists have discovered a remarkable Roman sanctuary beneath modern-day Frankfurt, shedding new light on mysterious rituals practiced on the borders of the Roman Empire. Scientists are even considering the possibility of human sacrifice.

At the end of May, the British city of Chichester will once again become a living museum of the Roman era. As part of the annual “Chichester Roman Week,” residents and visitors will be able to travel back almost 2,000 years and experience life in Roman Britain.

During revitalisation work on Almadraba Beach in Alicante, Spain, a marble head dating back to the Roman Empire was discovered. The find, dating back to the 1st or 2nd century CE, may represent Venus.

In the ruins of Pompeii, archaeologists have identified a man who was likely a doctor. His profession is evidenced by a small box of medical instruments he took with him while trying to escape the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE.

During renovation work carried out in the autumn of 2024 on a football pitch in Vienna’s Simmering district, archaeologists made a remarkable discovery. Beneath the pitch, they discovered a mass grave containing the remains of approximately 150 men. All indications are that these were Roman soldiers who fell in a brutal battle fought at the turn of the 1st and 2nd centuries CE.

In southern Spain, during work leading up to the construction of a solar farm, archaeologists discovered a remarkable fusion of two distinct eras. Within a prehistoric fortress dating back approximately 5,000 years, they discovered the burial of a man living during the Roman period. The site itself dates back to the Copper Age and boasts advanced defensive structures for the period, with walls and bastions.

Recent archaeological research in agricultural areas in western Germany has identified the remains of an artificial canal from the Roman period, generally dating from the 1st to the 4th century CE. Initially, researchers were drawn to an unusually simple, unnatural structure resembling an ancient riverbed, hidden beneath the surface. Only the application of geophysical methods such as gradient magnetometry, electrical resistivity tomography, and sediment core analysis allowed them to clearly establish that this was a fully artificial canal, not a natural branch of the Rhine.