When I thought of pre-Christian Roman religion, I assumed it meant the gods of Greek and Roman mythology, such as Jupiter and ...

Roman soldiers deliberately heated and curved the tips of their gladius swords to gain a tactical advantage in close-quarter ...

In 2011, archaeological excavations in Osijek, Croatia—the ancient Roman city of Mursa—revealed seven completely preserved skeletons in an ancient water well. Now, more than a decade later, a new ...

A stash of ancient ammunition has pinpointed where a Roman army camp once hunkered down in Spain's Pyrenees—and where local fighters sprang a deadly trap, reports Archaelogy.org. Archaeologists in the ...

The tokens are roughly the size of a half-dollar coin and feature markings etched into their surfaces. Karabük University Archaeologists digging in the ancient Roman city of Hadrianopolis, located ...

A Roman military camp from the reign of Marcus Aurelius was unearthed near Šurany, Slovakia — with a soldiers' skeletal remains, weapons and rare gate designs found at the site.

According to new archaeological evidence, the most elite Roman military soldiers stationed at the Egyptian port of Berenike found all sorts of innovative ways to show off their status, like carrying ...

There’s a strange and intriguing reference in the writings of a first-century Roman poet who describes a showdown between ...

Credit: Stefan Krmnicek / Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Rome conquered with its legions, but nearly four million ancient coins reveal what truly held its vast territories together: money, ...