The graveyard of Liternum, near Naples, was in use between the first century B.C.E. and the third century C.E.

The Roman army at its peak reached the north-western parts of modern day Saudi Arabia.The area between the Roman territory ...

The results align with previous ice-core studies, which have also noted a spike in atmospheric lead at the peak of the Roman Empire, and archaeological finds, which have revealed high levels of ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. The emperor Hadrian was well known for building monuments across the Roman Empire, a territory that ...

To find out how imperial structures contributed to levels of inequality, researchers writing in Nature Communications examined historical records from both empires at their peak (ca. 165 C.E. for the ...

When Roman Egypt came under attack from the Kushites in what is now Sudan, the Roman forces responded by destroying a Kushite ...

Although the team obviously can’t tie zircon minerals to the Roman Empire’s collapse, their lengthy migration inside frozen ...

By Eve Sampson Under a soccer field in a Vienna neighborhood along the Danube, archaeologists have found a mass grave dating to the era when the Roman Empire was battling Germanic tribes almost ...