Herodian’s History of the Roman Empire starts with the observation that “in a period of 60 years, the Roman imperial power ...

A study of the Roman conquest of Anatolia reveals how imperial expansion fueled economic growth but ultimately triggered ...

Witness the entire story of the Roman Empire’s rise and fall through powerful visual charts. From conquests to collapse, the data tells it all in just minutes.

Spartacus, a Thracian gladiator who had once served in the Roman army, escaped from slavery in 73 BCE. What began as a prison ...

A recent MIT-led study reveals that Roman concrete’s strength comes from volcanic ash, lime clasts, and hot mixing, giving it self-healing powers that modern cement lacks.

On that cold, quiet morning of May 29, 1453, the jewel of the Eastern Roman Empire, girded by titanic Theodosian walls and the Bosphorus Strait, a bastion of Christianity in the East for more than a t ...

Istanbul, formerly Constantinople, is a Greek name, too, deriving from the Greek phrase "Is tin poli," meaning "to the city." ...

When Alexander the Great died in 323 B.C., the Macedonian ... Empire. A new dynasty of Hellenistic sovereigns was born. In the first century B.C., Commagene formed a buffer zone between the Roman ...

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US court halts Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs. Legal blow to Trump’s trade war strategy raises questions over prior tariffs on China. Durable goods orders dropped 6.3% in April as ...

Around 2,000 years ago, fraternal twin infants were buried facing each other in a cemetery. But it's still unknown why they ...