From Roman ruins to rising barbarian kingdoms, the world at the end of antiquity was a strange mix of the old and the new.

The viral nature of the term “Roman Empire” makes it easy to forget the trend started because ancient Rome had one of the most unforgettable armies in history. A new show at the British Museum is ...

From party invitations to requests for warm socks, letters discovered at Vindolanda, England gave first-hand accounts of everyday life inside a Roman fort. Roman outpostAn aerial view shows the ...

The hat lay flattened and moth-eaten for more than a century in a museum box. Now, the rare 2,000-year-old headpiece (made for a Roman soldier stationed in the searing heat of Egypt) has been restored ...

Claire Khokhar, a Tennessee native, has always been fascinated by ancient history. As an undergraduate at the University of Memphis, Khokhar majored in history with a minor in classics. She even had ...

Researchers from Italy, Spain, and Tunisia have uncovered the Roman Empire's second largest olive oil manufacturer.

Sandals, masks, and other archaeological artifacts provide intimate glimpses into people's lives during Rome's rise, heyday, and fall. The engraving on this scarab from the second or third century B.C ...

At its peak, the Roman empire numbered some 60 million inhabitants and controlled everything "from Mesopotamia all the way to Hadrian's Wall", said Nick Clark in the Evening Standard. Stationed across ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a nearly 1,500-year-old Roman-period residential area at the ancient city of Perre in Adıyaman, southeastern Türkiye, ...