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

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

New research suggests the Romans used a method known as "hot mixing" to produce self-healing concrete, which allowed them to ...

A wedding ring believed to be from the Roman era has been discovered in northwestern Bulgaria. The jewelry piece, which is ...

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

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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 ...

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

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

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

Berenike was an isolated, windswept outpost. It linked the Roman Empire to the trade routes of India, Arabia, and East Africa ...