Elagabalus became Roman emperor at 14, was assassinated at 18, and managed to pack more scandal into those four years than ...

The British northern frontier was the edge of the Roman world — and a place of violence, boredom and opportunity, experts ...

Other Roman emperors met far more bloody ends than the cheese-loving Antoninus. Nero committed suicide; Galba was murdered by his bodyguards, the praetorians; and Geta was murdered by his brother ...

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

New DNA analysis reveals how the rise and fall of the Roman Empire ultimately shifted the population in the Balkans.

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

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

A discovery in Sardinia reveals up to 50,000 intact Roman coins, prompting research into trade, shipwrecks, and Mediterranean routes.

Concrete was the foundation of the ancient Roman empire. It enabled Rome's storied architectural revolution as well as the ...

Ancient Roman ideas of privacy differed radically from our own, and their communal toilets reveal a mindset almost impossible ...

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