LOST remains of ancient Roman soldiers have been uncovered at the bottom of a well. Seven “victims of a catastrophic event” ...

A supposed "backwater" of the Roman Empire is challenging traditional assumptions about the ancient civilization's decline, according to a research project that has lasted more than a decade. For 13 ...

The Roman Empire may have left an amazing legacy — but men allegedly "geek out" about the period more often than expected. A recent TikTok trend prompted women to ask the men in their lives how often ...

The cover of "My Roman History" by Alizah Holstein. (Courtesy of Penguin Random House) Author Alizah Holstein seemed destined to be a scholar of medieval Roman History. As a teen, she fell in love ...

Warning: Full spoilers follow for Gladiator II as well as ancient Roman history circa 200 CE. Ridley Scott’s historical action film Gladiator II has arrived, and as with the 2000 original starring ...

Archaeologists in Turkey uncovered a Roman hospital converted into a Byzantine church in Kaunos, revealing a millennium of transformation.

Gladiator is about a general-turned-gladiator named Maximus (Russell Crowe), who was created just for the film. He is likely a fictionalized combination of the historical general Marcus Nonius ...

Researchers have sequenced the mitochondrial genome of the deadliest form of malaria from an ancient Roman skeleton. They say the results could help to untangle the history of the disease in Europe.