Why exactly did the Roman Empire fall? The answer to this question has been heavily debated practically since the empire’s [… ...

In October 2024, a construction team came across a sea of skeletal remains while working on renovations to a soccer field in ...

When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

The local cavalry likely maintained over 700 animals—animals that needed food, shelter, and, when the time came, burials. Archaeologists first suggested the existence of a Roman horse cemetery ...

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Archaeologists launch a project to analyze 4,000 Roman bricks from Trier, Germany, revealing insights into ancient building ...

For most humans who have breathed Earth's air over the course of history, our deaths have disappeared from record, as ...

The Roman legal code in place at the time forbade chariots ... Rome consolidated its control over the region. In 62 B.C., the last southern tribe to rise against the empire was subjugated.

The scriptures' chronicling of the resurrection of Jesus Christ gives hope to a world where inflated bullies continue to ...

With cremation burial common in the European Roman Empire, finds of Roman skeletons ... number of casualties in combination with a lack of time and resources,” the museum wrote.

The detectorist sold the coin at an auction for over $6,000. It’s unclear why ... short reign came during the first civil war of the Roman Empire following the death of Nero.