A 13-year archeological excavation has shown that what was once believed a backwater town for the Roman Empire lasted far longer than originally believed. Interamna Lirenas was a thriving town well ...

Historians say these early rulers borrowed elements of the Roman Empire and governance ... a Germanic tribe near the Danube River. Facing heavy losses from war and disease, Rome recruited foreign ...

He always had a fresh pad of paper and a pen close at hand for writing down intriguing thoughts and ideas and questions which came to mind in moments when he was basking in the sun in the garden, by a ...

“Analysis revealed a single-layer settlement dating from the late Roman period, ending abruptly with a fire dated no earlier ...

The decline of the Roman Empire in the fifth century marked a turning point. The trade and political networks that connected Scandinavia with Rome began to disintegrate, forcing Scandinavian leaders ...

Digging into the lawn of a historic mansion in the capital city of Slovakia, archaeologists and their team of university students expected to find some ancient Roman artifacts but what emerged shocked ...

→Metal detectorists searching for WWII artifacts uncover much older and rarer weapon →Underground river hid traces ... contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire, researchers said.

The tree is a small common juniper which is growing in the Finnish Lapland. It has been standing since the Roman Empire and it might be surprising to some that the tree is not a huge towering oak ...

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 ...

The twins’ mother may also have had lead poisoning, a condition that is thought to have contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire, researchers said. “Lead was widely used in the Roman world ...