Yet Roman workers still found ways to resist exploitation through strikes and other forms of collective action. ...

The Lower Germanic Lines, now in the Netherlands, had been considered the northernmost outpost of the Roman Empire. But the discovery of a fort at the Hoog Buurlo site in Veluwe, dated to the second ...

Digging into the chalky orange-brown soil of western Germany, archaeologists exposed the ruins of an ancient Roman military ...

The ultimate lesson of the Roman Republic’s fate is that once you’ve allowed one man to rule as a monarch, even if you pretend he doesn’t, you are past the point of no return.

Perched on a hill overlooking the town of Alès, the site, which was salvaged before construction on modern houses began, also ...

An earthquake in Sisak, Croatia, forced renovations to the local city hall, and revealed a Roman-era theater in the basement ...

As history shows, Rome wasn’t known for its lack of military campaigns. But until the fourth century CE, Romans didn’t even bury bodies.Instead, they cremated them.

Standing in front of the cascade of crimson curtains on the balcony of Saint Peter’s on the evening of May 8, with an ...

The Roman Fort Magna, located in Northumberland, has been the site of several ancient footwear discoveries, but one shoe, due ...

The best evidence yet that Roman gladiators fought lions: a bite mark. For the first time, bite marks made by a large cat, possibly an African lion, have been identified on the bones of what is ...