Sarah Bond is a professor of classics at the University of Iowa and the author of Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in ...

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 ...

The largest collection of Roman coins found in Spain is now on exhibit. The museum display features 50,000 ancient coins from ...

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.

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

Ask a Roman-History Professor: Were There Ever Sharks in the Colosseum? By Louis Peitzman , a freelance writer who covers TV, film, and theater. Nov. 21, 2024 ...

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

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.

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

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 ...