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An 1,800-year-old silver amulet discovered buried ... That could be enough to rewrite the known history of Christianity in the Roman Empire. The amulet—and the inscription—are the oldest ...

In Germany this development began relatively late. Political conditions in the Holy Roman Empire - known in Germany as the ‘Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation’ - were still entirely determined by ...

Roman soldiers typically stayed at temporary camps for a few days or weeks before continuing marching. The Hoog Buurlo camp may have “served as a stopover en route to another camp at Ermelo-Leuvenum, ...

likely around 1,800 years ago. “What makes this find so remarkable is that the camp lies beyond the northern frontier of the Roman Empire,” Stevens said in the release. The empire’s northern ...

When the How Often Do You Think About the Roman Empire? meme went viral in 2023, it may have felt like a passing joke — until it became clear that people really do think about it all the time.

The roads built by the Romans in Britain continued to be used for both travel and trade in the Middle Ages for more than a thousand years after the fall of the Roman Empire, according to a recent ...