At present, researchers from around the world are still analysing how much territory the Roman Empire really covered. To date, this was almost clear, but a new discovery in a speci ...

Researchers think the camp was built during the second century C.E. Stretching across 22 acres, it was identified using a ...

Archaeologists in northern Britain discovered 13-inch shoes at the ancient Roman Magna Fort, raising questions about the towering soldiers who defended the empire.

The Holy Roman Empire was vast, powerful in name but fractured in reality. This video explores how conflicting loyalties, ...

The notoriously cruel Roman emperor Caligula may have been quite knowledgeable about medicinal plants, a new study suggests.

Rocks on Iceland beaches confirm the Late Antique Little Ice Age, caused by volcanic eruptions, precipitated the fall of the Roman Empire.

Bones found at the site of an ancient fish-processing plant were used to genetically identify the species that went into a ...