Roman soldiers at Hadrian’s Wall weren’t just defending the frontier—they were also battling parasites that made daily life ...

Excavations of sewer drains at a Roman fort in northern England have revealed the presence of several parasites that can ...

Tunisia is home to some of the most significant Roman and Punic ruins in North Africa: Dougga is considered the best-preserved Roman small town in North Africa. It features a mix of Punic, Numidian, ...

A Roman cemetery containing 100 warhorses and a man buried among them has been discovered in Germany, posing a social and military mystery.

Archaeologists in a small French village have uncovered a buried jar packed with tens of thousands of Roman coins, a discovery that turns an ordinary storage vessel into a frozen snapshot of everyday ...

When the emperor Hadrian visited the province of Britannia in A.D. 122, he was in full command of the entire Roman Empire, which stretched some 2,500 miles east from northern Great Britain to ...

Their questionable reputations and turbulent leadership brought about the downfall of Rome’s monarchy—and the rise of the Republic. Violence played a part in the reigns of Rome's last last three kings ...

Life in many medieval towns revolved around constructing a cathedral, a massive undertaking that took generations of work by everyone from artists and architects to prisoners of war. Work in ...

In the summer of A.D. 325, more than 300 bishops gathered in Nicaea — located in modern-day northern Turkey — to promulgate a common Christian creed, settle Christological disputes that arose from the ...

Archaeologists excavating a residential district in northeastern France have uncovered three ancient ceramic storage jars containing an astonishing cache of at least 40,000 Roman coins. The discovery ...

This view of the Corinthia, the area immediately surrounding the Greek city of Corinth, was painted by German artist Carl Rottmann in 1847. Greece’s unique shape makes it one of the most recognizable ...

While Old Harbor gets all the postcard glory, New Harbor on the island’s western side offers a different kind of charm. This protected salt pond, officially called Great Salt Pond, serves as a natural ...