a series of Roman fortifications that marked the end of the Roman Empire’s territory in the area. The nearby Anreppen camp briefly housed Roman soldiers before it was abandoned following the ...

The Roman Empire is divided into two parts ... They quickly expanded their territory with lightning-fast cavalry and accurate archers, inspiring fear wherever they went. At its height, the ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. The emperor Hadrian was well known for building monuments across the Roman Empire, a territory that ...

Such is the nature of empire that scale can be measured ... the authors take us through the evolution of Roman Gaul from conquered territory to province, as its population grows from 3.75 million ...

When Roman Egypt came under attack from the Kushites in what is now Sudan, the Roman forces responded by destroying a Kushite city – or so we thought ...

Most slaves during the Roman Empire were foreigners and ... or slaves bought outside Roman territory. In hard times, it was not uncommon for desperate Roman citizens to raise money by selling ...

Rocks from Greenland found on Iceland's west coast could link the late Roman Empire's fall to a spell of sudden climate ...

At the age of 36, the autocratic Augustus Caesar became Emperor and protector of some 50 million souls who inhabited a ...