What have the Romans ever done for us?” quipped my partner, Ed, as we stood on the main street of Nicopolis ad Istrum, formerly a Roman town in Bulgaria that is now a glorious assemblage of ruins.

At present, researchers from around the world are still analysing how much territory the Roman Empire really covered. To date, this was almost clear, but a new discovery in a speci ...

About 2,000 years ago, the powerful Roman Empire established a boundary at the northern edge of its territory in continental ...

Archaeologists in northern Britain discovered 13-inch shoes at the ancient Roman Magna Fort, raising questions about the towering soldiers who defended the empire.

Taking a look at the past allows us to understand history from a more analytical point of view. If archaeological expeditions did not exist, we would take for granted facts that pe ...

Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla opens up about his daily thoughts on the Roman Empire, Batman, and the philosophy behind ...

The notoriously cruel Roman emperor Caligula may have been quite knowledgeable about medicinal plants, a new study suggests.

Rocks on Iceland beaches confirm the Late Antique Little Ice Age, caused by volcanic eruptions, precipitated the fall of the Roman Empire.

Bones found at the site of an ancient fish-processing plant were used to genetically identify the species that went into a ...

Archaeologists reported finding the first "exceptionally large shoe" on May 21 and have continued to discover more since then ...