Recently, a papyrus was unearthed from the collections of the Israel Antiquities Authority. It offers rare insights into ...

"This is the best-documented Roman court case from Iudaea apart from the trial of Jesus," said one researcher.

As the name implies, each episode of roughly an hour covers a historical topic in brief, everything from the history and uses of English castles to the Industrial Revolution. The first one I listened ...

The Roman emperors were once the most famous people in the world, ruling over an empire that stretched between what are now ...

Irene of Athens was the first Greek-Roman empress to wield power as a sole ruler of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.

Archaeologists in Luxembourg have unearthed a stash of Roman gold coins dating back some 1,600 years. The coins are marked ...

following the rise of the Roman Empire—and remained relatively high ... "While our findings suggest that lead poisoning from background air pollution was not acute especially compared to other ...

Ranking immediately below senators, equestrians became an important human resource, whose work underpinned the smooth running of the Roman Empire ... Their business background made them ...

Archaeologists uncover 2,000-year-old private spa complex thought to be the most elaborate ever found in the ancient Roman ...

People living during the golden age of the Roman Empire experienced an average ... micrograms per deciliter (2.4 mcg/dl above Neolithic background levels), from air pollution alone, and that ...