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 ...

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

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 ...

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

New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world.

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

The Roman Empire might have been bigger than we first thought. The uncovering of a hidden road network demonstrates the ...

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 ...

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

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

A key figure in this controlled chaos was the Saturnalicius Princeps, or “Leader of Saturnalia.” This mock king was chosen by ...