The pope’s portrait is everywhere these days. Here, we found it in a store of liturgical paraphernalia in central Rome. There were also many other symbols around, as a testament to how religion and ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team shared Thursday the designs for the three core surveys the mission will conduct ...

With the death of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE, Rome entered a period of political upheaval settled only when Caesar's nephew Octavian defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra, took control of the Empire ... As ...

These rocks, apparently transported there by icebergs, are linked to a brief but intense glaciation that began around the year 540 AD and lasted ... transformed the map of Europe at the time.

Scientists have uncovered evidence that sheds light on a little-known ice age that may have contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire ... between 540 and 800 AD. This period of intense ...

The Roman Empire and the Chinese Han Dynasty may have stood at opposite ends of the Eurasian continent, but they did experience one thing in common — high levels of income inequality. A team of ...

Reiner Riedler / Vienna Museum Researchers suspect the fighting took place sometime in the late first century C.E.—probably between 86 and 96 C.E. during the Roman Empire’s Danube campaigns ...

Join us for the first series of History’s Greatest Battles, where we’re heading back to the Roman empire. Emily Briffett is joined by historian Dr Adrian Goldsworthy to look back at five of the most ...

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