Researchers found that the group led by Attila the Hun contained a mixture of diverse ancestries, with at least a few related ...

Archaeologists found the ruins of an Iron Age settlement with a “rare” ancient Roman brooch buried underneath, possibly as an ...

the Roman Empire at his back. Two hundred yards away, just past a narrow meadow torn up by wild boars and a rushing stream, the next hill rises like a green wall. “Here’s the border,” he ...

Barbarian peoples—Swabians, Vandals, Alans, Visigoths, Franks, and Burgundians—cross the border into the Western Roman Empire to settle. At times they put themselves at the service of Rome.

The first-of-its-kind find outside the borders of the Roman Empire add a level of intrigue to the origins of the stash. A surprisingly well-preserved shirt of Iron Age chainmail added another ...

Huns and farmers living around the Roman Empire’s eastern border, where the Danube River runs through present-day Hungary, borrowed ways of life from each other during the fifth century ...

When the Roman Empire began collapsing, Christianity prevailed and the Roman Catholic Church kept its territories together.

The Roman Empire now stretched across Europe and the Middle East, from the borders of Scotland to southern Spain. It included North Africa, western and central Europe, and what is now Israel ...

A metal detectorist in Germany has discovered a rare hoard of almost 3,000 Roman-era coins outside of the Roman Empire's ancient borders and far from any known Germanic tribe settlements of the time.

Bunnik, the village where they were buried, was once along the northern border of the Roman Empire. It's the first time such a find has been made on the European mainland, the agency said ...