One thousand six hundred years ago, in a city named after the famous emperor Hadrian, bored Roman soldiers spent their free ...

Starting out as a Roman statesman and military leader, Augustus used his cunning and political leverage to become the first … ...

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

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

What we think of as the Roman Empire lasted from 27 BCE to 476 AD. But the end of the Roman Empire is way more complicated ...

A newly translated papyrus found in Israel provides information about criminal cases and slave ownership in the Roman Empire.

Archaeologists have uncovered a rare ancient Roman artifact that has revealed previously unknown places lost to time. The ...

Ammianus Marcellinus was a Roman soldier and historian of Greek origin. He is best known for his work Res Gestae, which chronicles the history of the Roman Empire from the reign of Nerva (96 AD) to ...

We’ve waited years for Simon Hall’s ambitious, official Rome Total War board game - and it fully lives up to Creative Assembly’s PC classic.

The Roman Empire lowered IQ levels across Europe according to a new study, due to the vast quantities of lead pollution churned out by the booming metals industry. Researchers have said the massive ...

Atmospheric lead pollution likely caused cognitive decline among citizens of the Roman Empire, according to research published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.