Sometime between the mid-first century and early second century CE, Roman legionaries clashed with Germanic fighters near the Danube River in a furious battle. Almost two thousand years later, ...

Archaeologists in Stuttgart, Germany, uncovered over 100 horse skeletons believed to have been part of a Roman cavalry unit.

When construction workers started churning up skeletal remains, a project to renovate a soccer field outside Vienna, Austria, morphed into an archaeological dig, and it wasn’t l ...

This incredible discovery was unique and rare because the find went against everything known about a critical Roman ritual.

This oil painting by French artist Firmin Didot (1764-1836) depicts human-animal combat in ancient Rome. New evidence shows it likely occurred as far away as Roman Britain. Credit: Public Domain ...

As someone who’s spent years researching the economy of Ancient Rome ... on soldiers’ pay. Ancient traders soon became skilled at finding their way around paying tariffs to Roman authorities.

Archeologists have uncovered the burial in Liternum, an ancient town in Campania that flourished from the 1st century BC to the 3rd century AD.

The ancient Roman ruins under Sisak city hall as seen during excavations. Photo from Croatia’s Ministry of Culture and Media In ancient Greece and Rome ... as a Roman military camp then ...

Caligula was adored by the people of Rome, too, in part because of their love for Germanicus but also out of sympathy for the ...

They belong to a man in his late twenties or early thirties who lived during the 3rd century AD, when Eboracum was an important town and military base in the north of the Roman province of Britannia.