Standing in the vast ruins of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, hundreds of gulls circle above. Their haunting cries echo ...

While modern soldiers may not adopt the testudo formation as the legions of old did, many Roman innovations did lead to ...

In the former Beverly Hills of Roman London, archaeologists were astonished to find thousands of fragments from Roman walls ...

Formerly Roman-populated areas of Germany still tend to be wealthier than areas where they did not settle, in part thanks to ...

Eight days’ hiking lets you imagine the weird and wonderful lives of those who once lived at the Roman Empire’s northern ...

Fionn Adamian reviews the group exhibition of digital art ‘Hybrid Futures: Rhizomes, Meshworks and Alter-Ecologies’ at ...

That the settlement had some form of underground plumbing system suggests that modern-day Leuven was an integrated and prosperous part of the empire, despite being located over 700 miles from the ...

Urbanitas is how a city can fit the pattern of the Roman central power.” From the empire’s rise in 27 B.C. until its fall in A.D. 476, the Romans erected 100 or so gladiator schools, all of ...

Silver fueled the rise of the Roman Empire. But the ancient process of mining and extracting silver was also making the air thick with lead, scientists found. January 8, 2025 ...

Researchers linked lead found in ice samples from Greenland to ancient Roman silver smelters, suggesting the pollution was pervasive enough to affect much of Europe. IE 11 is not supported.

The eastern Roman Empire reached its greatest extent in the 6th century. Light purple represents its military gains from 533 and 565, a period in which the empire was supposedly devastated by ...

We have a complete list of the modern countries that were once all or in part included in the Roman Empire. Each of the photos is of a Roman archaeological site in that country. 24/7 Wall St. Insights ...