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

During the age of emperors, Roman sculpture was of artistic, religious, and political importance, and often took on epic ...

There were 22 gold objects, in addition to other impressive grave goods, buried with the deceased, indicating they were ...

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 ...

Though rare, female gladiators did appear in the Roman arena, challenging ancient Rome’s expectations and revealing how ...

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

Concrete is an incredibly useful and versatile building material on which not only today’s societies, but also the ancient Roman Empire was built. To this day Roman concrete structures can be found in ...

Exceptionally Heavy Roman Gold Ring Unearthed in Bulgaria's Ancient Bononia. Archaeologists working at the Ancient Bononia site in Vidin, Bulgaria have made a remarkable discovery ...

Roman military officials stationed at an Egyptian port were crazy about their pets, and seem to have been particularly fond ...

Croatia is home to the world's only Roman palace that people still live inside, 1700 years after it was first constructed.