The Roman emperors were once the most famous people in the world, ruling over an empire that stretched between what are now ...

A hoard of Roman coins dating from the Fourth century and covering the reign of nine emperors has been found in northern ...

Archaeologists in Luxembourg have discovered a lavish 1,700-year-old hoard of Roman gold coins that had been placed near the ...

Edward “Ted” James Champlin, the Cotsen Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, and professor of classics, emeritus, died of ...

The Roman Empire was a force unlike any other, shaping the ancient world through innovation, conquest, and culture. This ...

A team of archaeologists recently discovered a hoard of 141 Roman gold coins dating back to around the Fourth Century CE in ...

The new research adds context to a long-standing debate about the role lead pollution and poisoning may have played in the ...

Silver fueled the rise of the Roman Empire. But the ancient process of mining and extracting silver was also making the air ...

Stretching from the windswept Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland down to North Africa, and from Portugal to the Middle East, ...

The Roman Empire's pervasive influence once reached across land, sea, and even sky. During the golden age of Roman ...

Scientists are exploring the role of lead pollution in the decline of the Roman Empire, proposing that chronic lead exposure ...