Classical archaeologist Michael Guggenberger, who has published several studies on the objects, described them in a 2000 ...

There are more than 50 theories for the function of this 12-sided, pentagonal-faced bronze object — but archaeologists have ...

Archaeologists in northern Britain discovered 13-inch shoes at the ancient Roman Magna Fort, raising questions about the towering soldiers who defended the empire.

Researchers think the camp was built during the second century C.E. Stretching across 22 acres, it was identified using a ...

What have the Romans ever done for us?” quipped my partner, Ed, as we stood on the main street of Nicopolis ad Istrum, formerly a Roman town in Bulgaria that is now a glorious assemblage of ruins.

At present, researchers from around the world are still analysing how much territory the Roman Empire really covered. To date, this was almost clear, but a new discovery in a speci ...

Sarah Bond is a professor of classics at the University of Iowa and the author of Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in ...

Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla opens up about his daily thoughts on the Roman Empire, Batman, and the philosophy behind ...

Taking a look at the past allows us to understand history from a more analytical point of view. If archaeological expeditions did not exist, we would take for granted facts that pe ...

Rocks on Iceland beaches confirm the Late Antique Little Ice Age, caused by volcanic eruptions, precipitated the fall of the Roman Empire.

The notoriously cruel Roman emperor Caligula may have been quite knowledgeable about medicinal plants, a new study suggests.

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