Archaeologists excavating an ancient Roman theater discovered a rare artifact—an intact, inscribed sundial. The 2,000-year-old piece is one of only a few like it ever recovered, and it offers insight ...

Sometime around 2,000 years ago, a Roman citizen named Marcus Novius Tubula, fresh off an election win, dedicated a marble sundial to his small town of Interamna Lirenas—a sort of victory monument ...

The huge 30ft hole built into the dome of Rome’s Pantheon has mystified minds for centuries. Now historians have come up with an intriguing explanation for the feature – it was built as a sundial to ...

The face of the sundial has 11 hour lines and runs through three day curves to indicate the track of the winter solstice, summer solstice and the equinox. Only a small bit of the iron needle that ...

A rare and intact 2,000-year-old Roman sundial, engraved with the name of the man that commissioned it, has been discovered in central Italy. Researchers from the University of Cambridge made the find ...