No thread is brighter than that connecting East and West. The exchange of ideas, trade, and philosophies has shaped our world ...

The Roman Empire grew over a long period ... the empire spread through North Africa, through the West all the way through Great Britain, to the East all the way to eastern Syria, and that embraced ...

An rare discovery in northern Luxembourg has given historians a fresh glimpse into the final years of the Western Roman ...

Originally, the West was the Catholic Western Roman Empire, with its capital in Rome, while the East was the Eastern Orthodox Roman Empire, centred around Byzantium. Much of the latter was ...

Archaeologists in Luxembourg have discovered a lavish 1,700-year-old hoard of Roman gold coins that had been placed near the foundations of a small, tower-like Roman fort.

The Roman army was the largest fighting force in the ancient world. It conquered a huge empire that stretched from Britain all the way to the Middle East. The soldiers were the best trained ...