The 8,000-year-old tradition took root in France around the sixth century B.C. when the southern Gauls were settled by the Greeks, later to be encapsulated in the Roman Empire. Now, archaeologists in ...

Ancient shipwrecks have given scientists fresh insights into why the final remnants of the Roman Empire collapsed - nearly ...

Watling Street, built shortly after the Roman invasion in 43 AD, served as a crucial arterial road in Roman Britain. It ...

Built after the Roman invasion in AD 43, the 2,000-year-old road connected the port of Dover to Londinium and the West ...

A recent study published in the journal Klio by researchers Haggai Olshanetsky and Lev Cosijns analyzes the true causes of ...

A 19th-century map of Assyria, Armenia ... of deals led to periods of stability in Armenia during the time of the Roman Empire, but eventually, war between Parthia and Rome would break out ...

He was murdered in 217 while among his most trusted soldiers, campaigning in the eastern part of the Roman Empire. According to Beard, “he's assassinated while he's having a pee on the road.” ...

Provincial coinage gives us a unique insight into the Roman world, reflecting the values and concerns of the elites of the many hundreds of cities in the Roman empire. Coins offer a very different ...

suggesting that popular fascination with the ancient fighters reached the edges of the empire Julia Binswanger A new study has shattered historians' long-held assumptions about some of the people ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login The presence of women in Roman military contexts has been established beyond doubt by scholars in recent decades. Nevertheless, very little ...