Archaeologists working with the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt have recently discovered the remains of a Roman ...

Ancient inscriptions written the language Jesus spoke have revealed a lost 1,700-year-old chapter in early Christian history.

Zeno was the Byzantine Emperor who witnessed the end of the Western Roman Empire. He is known for being buried alive by his wife.

Roman history began in 753 B.C.E., when Romulus killed his twin brother and founded the city that would eventually rule the Mediterranean. That power would be built on slavery. No modern depiction of ...

Soldiers and civilians alike enjoyed the strategy game Ludus Latrunculorum in the Roman Empire, especially in Roman Britain ...

Specialists found three containers full of coins from the Roman Empire and believe it was not a hidden treasure, but rather a ...

What looked like an old Rhine bend was a Roman canal that stayed in use for centuries after the empire fell, researchers ...

Why so many Roman coin hoards end up being buried and never found has baffled archaeologists for decades. A major new study has shown that the non-recovery of these hoarded treasures was caused by ...

Heerlen curse tablet with an ancient Greek invocation of deities and demons in the Egyptian style. Credit: Elke Fuchs, ...