Key Takeaways Gladiators only fought 2-3 times annually, spending most of their time training intensively in gladiator ...

Archaeologists in Cologne, Germany have made a jaw-dropping discovery beneath the city’s historic center: a 2,000-year-old ...

Beneath the streets of Cologne, Germany, layers of Roman architecture have drawn scholarly attention for decades, and a ...

What if Homo erectus (H. erectus), the direct ancestor of modern humans, arrived in China much earlier than we thought? Research published in Science Advances may rewrite our understanding of early ...

Historian Kyle Harper is coming to the University of Memphis to ask a chilling question: are we, like the Romans, on the cusp of societal collapse — or even mass extinction?” ...

This comprehensive historical exploration traces the financial collapse of the Roman Empire during the 3rd century AD, detailing how emperors struggling to fund a massive army, vast building projects, ...

A 2,000-year-old Roman staircase has been uncovered in Cologne, revealing hidden details about life in the governor’s palace.

At first glance, the stone doesn't appear to be much. The pale limestone surface of a museum display case in Heerlen has a few faint lines on it, worn and ...

Archaeologists recently unearthed the remains of ancient Roman marching camps in Saxony-Anhalt — a first for one of Eastern ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, the first animals to crawl onto land were strict meat-eaters, even as plants had already taken over the landscape. Now scientists have uncovered a ...

A Roman stone board game has been unplayable since its discovery more than a century ago, but AI might have just worked out ...

I have often reflected on my journey to Armenia, trying to understand the historical path of an ancient nation across the ...