Now, researchers excavating portions of the site found evidence that the Roman influence may have reached Ireland after all — ...

Along Hadrian’s Wall, a 73-mile-long stone barrier built on the northwest edge of the Roman Empire, archaeologists have ...

From emperors and conspiracies to gladiatorial games and daily life—see how well you know the empire that shaped the ancient ...

Scientists in Ireland have discovered the charred remains of a 2,000 fig that indicates a Roman presence on the isle.

Ancient shipwrecks have shone new light on how and when the Eastern Roman Empire began its 1,000 year decline and eventual ...

A small town in the Aragón region of Spain was saved from the floods that killed more than 200 by an ancient Roman dam.

A pit of human bones, potential evidence of a catastrophic epidemic that struck Constantinople in 541 A.D. Sulfur deposits ...

The "remarkable" church, thought to be more than 1,600 years old, was found in an ancient city by a desert oasis.

Ancient Greeks prepared Roman gladiators for violent contests, although these were quite different from the Olympics the ...

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We examine the road to Gladiator II not taken in a 2001 screenplay by Nick Cave. Written at the behest of Russell Crowe, it ...

A rare Roman knife handle cast in the shape of a gladiator discovered at a Northumberland Hadrian's Wall site could be ...