Why was Alexander the Great seen by the Romans as the greatest military leader of the ancient world? This question would ...

Concurrently, Antiochus III (223-187BCE), king of the Seleucid Empire ... Roman response was decisive and soon the legions were dispatched back to Greece. According to Grainger, the limited size ...

With the death of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE, Rome entered a period of political upheaval settled only when Caesar's nephew Octavian defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra, took control of the Empire ... As ...

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

Many unexpected treasures have turned out to be true storytellers, solving mysteries and illuminating the shadows of the past ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thanks to modern-day literature and films—and the fact that ancient amphitheaters remain standing throughout the former Roman Empire, notably the Colosseum in Rome—warring gladiators are one ...

In Rome’s Colosseum and other amphitheatres in cities scattered across the sprawling ancient Roman Empire, gladiatorial spectacles were not merely human-versus-human affairs. Gladiators also ...

From 500 BCE on, the Roman Empire extended its territory across parts of Europe and North Africa until its frontier totaled some 7,500 kilometres by the 2nd century. The Romanian segment, the Dacian ...

A Roman water pipe made of fragments of hollow tree trunks has been unearthed in Belgium. Found near what may be a water pumping system, the pipe likely dates to between the second and third ...