The Romans oversaw one of the largest and most important empires in history – these are the most extraordinary treasures they ...

In reality, after the Assyrian captivity from 720 BC and after the Babylonian captivity from 586 BC, there had not been an ...

Set just off the trail are the remains of Roman salting tanks, dating back to the second century AD. These stone vats were once part of an industrial network that stretched across the Roman Empire.

In the second century A.D., the Roman Empire stood at the height of its power—until a deadly disease swept through its cities. The Antonine Plague killed an estimated 5 to 10 million people, striking ...

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

NEARLY 2000 years after the first legionary trudged on to Scottish soil, the Roman Empire’s attempted conquests of Scotland ...

Western civilization arose in Greece in the 8th century BC, when some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate ...

This protozoan causes dysentery and is notoriously difficult to detect in archaeological samples because, unlike worms, it ...

Vivid scenes of battlefield decapitations and female prisoners dragged off by their hair, carved into the 1,840-year-old ...

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, ...

Successful American action in Venezuela and threats against Greenland suggest the rules-based international order that ...

New insights from archaeology, genetics and early inscriptions are helping to uncover the story of Celtic languages in ...