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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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

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

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

The Roman Empire was highly man-centric – unlike present-day America, which is only “predominantly man-centric” – so apparently a lot of my fellow brosephs like reflecting on the days of ...

More than 1,500 years after its collapse in A.D. 476, the Roman Empire has seen a resurgence in the unlikeliest of settings — social media. Online users, predominantly on the video-sharing app ...

The Roman Empire began in 27 B.C. and fell in A.D. 476. And in A.D. 2023, it went viral on TikTok. In posts shared on social media, women have been asking the men in their lives how often they ...

The Roman Empire began in 27 B.C., when Octavian, Julius Caesar's adopted son and heir, was granted the title "Augustus," meaning "revered one," by the Roman senate.