Archaeologists discovered ancient Roman inscriptions and a 1,900-year-old coin wedged between rock formations while exploring ...

The Romans associated pants with barbarism and eventually banned them, but the legwear eventually became commonplace nonetheless.

As the name implies, each episode of roughly an hour covers a historical topic in brief, everything from the history and uses of English castles to the Industrial Revolution. The first one I listened ...

Around 2,000 years ago, before the Roman Empire conquered Great Britain, women were at the very front and center of Iron Age society. Researchers have sequenced the genomes of around 50 Celtic Britons ...

stashed by a Roman soldier after he returned to the European continent Eli Wizevich Three of the coins are particularly rare: They portray Eugenius, an illegitimate emperor who reigned for just ...

Empress Theodora at the Hippodrome of Constantinople. Credit: Louis Hector Leroux, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain Women played diverse and influential roles in the Byzantine Empire that extended far ...

The front page article chronicling an inauguration party in Washington sparked backlash for cropping out black attendees and ...

In 2023, for example, it was revealed that many American men – but not women – thought a lot about the Roman empire. For older men, it’s even more frequent than sex! Edward Gibbon over ...

A metal detectorist from Leicestershire has unearthed a “once-in-a-lifetime” hoard of 50 Roman coins. David Dunn, 42, a ...

Eight emperors are shown on the coins. However, three of the coins featured an unexpected ruler–Eugenius, who only ruled the Western Roman Empire from 392 to 394 CE. Eugenius came to power ...