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

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

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

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

Archaeologists in a small French village have uncovered a buried jar packed with tens of thousands of Roman coins, a ...

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

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

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

Concrete was the foundation of the ancient Roman empire. It enabled Rome's storied architectural revolution as well as the ...

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 ...