The British northern frontier was the edge of the Roman world — and a place of violence, boredom and opportunity, experts ...

In a quiet corner of rural France, archaeologists have just uncovered a buried fortune: three ceramic jugs packed with around ...

Lime granules trapped in ancient walls show Romans relied on a reactive hot-mix method to making concrete that could now ...

Concrete was the foundation of the Roman Empire. For centuries, researchers have tried to uncover the secret behind the ...

Other Roman emperors met far more bloody ends than the cheese-loving Antoninus. Nero committed suicide; Galba was murdered by his bodyguards, the praetorians; and Geta was murdered by his brother ...

New DNA analysis reveals how the rise and fall of the Roman Empire ultimately shifted the population in the Balkans.

A digital atlas of ancient Rome’s highways and byways reveals a road network that was more extensive than thought.

A discovery in Sardinia reveals up to 50,000 intact Roman coins, prompting research into trade, shipwrecks, and Mediterranean ...

Discovery of building materials abandoned at construction site reveals secrets of ancient concrete that can set underwater ...

Urban populations in southern Britain experienced a decline in health that lasted for generations after the Romans arrived ...

While excavating at the ancient fort of La Loma in the northern Iberian Peninsula, archaeologists found the shattered ...