The ancient road that ran through northern Greece and connected Rome to Byzantium. Credit: Berthold Werner via Wikimedia Commons ... when Emperor Constantine renamed the city after himself and ...

During the upcoming Jubilee year, millions of Christian pilgrims will flock to the Eternal City’s innumerable holy places.

Once a proud, 75-acre outpost 31 miles north of Rome, Falerii Novi was built and occupied in 241 B.C. and abandoned in 700 A.D. Though it’s been thoroughly buried over the course of time, new ...

Journey through time and explore the most catastrophic decisions that shaped history around 1000 years ago. From epic ...

Rome's story begins as a small settlement on the Tiber River, evolving into a republic, and then an empire that shaped the Western world. From the legendary founding by Romulus and Remus to the ...

The discovery changes the whole timeline of the collapse. A 13-year archeological excavation has shown that what was once ...

The excavation of an ancient Roman city has rewritten the history of the Empire's collapse, archaeologists say ... Fragments ...

with at least a few related to elites of the Xiongnu Empire Sonja Anderson The remains of a young man, found in his bed in the destroyed town of Herculaneum, included glassy fragments that had ...

Caesar's assassination would result in a long series of civil wars that ended in the demise of the Roman Republic and the birth of the Roman Empire. Eventually it led to the rise of his grand-nephew ...

Having been transformed into a vehicle of imperial propaganda, triumphal arches proliferated not only in Rome but also across the empire. While the triumphal arches of the republican era were ...

Researchers found that the group led by Attila the Hun contained a mixture of diverse ancestries, with at least a few related to elites of the Xiongnu Empire Sonja Anderson Daily Correspondent In ...