The Holy Roman Empire, despite the name, was Germanic, but why was it called Roman if it had nothing to do with the Romans?

Pitt looked at 372 non-adult skeletons (mostly infants and toddlers) and 274 adult females from 24 different sites across ...

While excavating at the ancient fort of La Loma in the northern Iberian Peninsula, archaeologists found the shattered ...

The vessels and coin hoards found by the reasearcher date from much later, around the late 3 rd to early 4 th century C.E.

New research suggests the Romans used a method known as "hot mixing" to produce self-healing concrete, which allowed them to ...

Throughout humanity's history, there have been lasting empires that stood for millennia, ruling vast areas of land and people ...

A digital atlas of ancient Rome’s highways and byways reveals a road network that was more extensive than thought.

Lime granules trapped in ancient walls show Romans relied on a reactive hot-mix method to making concrete that could now ...

About 2,400 years ago, before the emergence of the Roman empire, a small armada of boats approached the island of Als off the ...

New research shows Roman concrete relied on heat-driven mixing and reactive lime, giving it a surprising self-healing ability ...

A wedding ring believed to be from the Roman era has been discovered in northwestern Bulgaria. The jewelry piece, which is ...