Archaeologists discovered the first Roman marching camps in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, dating to early 200s A.D. The site held over 1,500 artifacts that have been recovered.

The site's proximity to a nearby Sasanian fortification is particularly significant, researchers said, as it may indicate that Christians and Zoroastrians lived side by side in the region. The ...

Peter Edwell receives funding from the Australian Research Council. In the third century CE, a new dynasty known as the Sasanians came to power in ancient Iran. Within a few years, the first Sasanian ...

A comprehensive new map of Roman roads has boosted the known size of the empire’s land transport network by almost 60 per cent – and it is available for anyone to explore online. The project, called ...

A newly created high-resolution map of the roads that threaded across the Roman Empire charts the ancient network from Great Britain to North Africa and has added more than 60,000 miles of roads that ...

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The Israeli comedy sketch show "Eretz Nehederet" (A Wonderful Country) put on this performance featuring President Trump as a conquering Roman Emperor in the wake of the successful ceasefire deal with ...

The Passage of Commodus was used by Roman emperors. Simona Murrone / Colosseum Archaeological Park A secret tunnel in the Colosseum once used by Roman emperors has opened to the public for the first ...

Being a Roman emperor was a risky job. It wasn't unusual for emperors to be killed by usurpers wanting to remove them from power. They also faced many health challenges, such as death from epidemics ...

Caligula, the ancient Roman emperor infamous for his insanity and cruelty, may have had a soft spot for plants, according to recently published research. A new study co-authored by Trevor Luke, a ...

When we consider some of the strongest and long-lasting empires in history, the Roman Empire is usually at least in the conversation. And because the various stages of the Roman Republic and the ...