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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

But in the search for an answer, imagination can run wild. Suggestions have emerged in recent decades that attribute the rise ...

Around 2,000 years ago, before the Roman Empire conquered Great Britain, women were at the very front and center of Iron Age ...

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, ...