Scientists in France may be hot on the trail of a long-lost canal that the Romans built over two millennia ago while battling ...

Scientists in France may be hot on the trail of a long-lost canal that the Romans built over two millennia ago while battling ...

From 27 B.C.E. to 180 C.E., the Roman Empire saw a period of relative tranquility and prosperity now known as the Pax Romana ...

The Eastern Roman Empire had seven simultaneous emperors during the Middle Ages, between the years 1203 and 1204 AD. This was ...

While the “frivolous East” may have been happy to venerate men as though they were gods, the serious men of the Roman ...

Hidden for more than two millennia, the Le Câtillon II hoard is the largest Celtic coin trove ever discovered. But was it a ...

Before the assassination, the Ides of March was best known as a festival. The popular time for feasting and drinking marked the festival of Roman deity Anna Perenna. It was also traditionally the time ...

More than a decade ago, metal detectorists Reg Mead and Richard Miles unearthed what proved to be the world's largest Iron ...

Tales of ancient Rome have long enraptured modern ... He is unaware, however, that his captive is a young Caius Julius Caesar. It does not take the young soldier long to seek revenge when the ...

Bonisoli explained that it’s unusual to find ancient coins from this era in a jar like the ones recently discovered. Another unknown is how much the coins might be worth, although Italian media have ...

What it tells us about the past: Around 800 years ago, a 7-year-old boy named Onfim seems to have gotten bored with doing schoolwork and instead drew himself as a horseback rider slaying an enemy.

Ancient Athens’ oldest coins, minted in the period of the Athenian tyranny in the lead up to democracy in the 6th century BC, were created from ores such as silver originating around the world, a new ...