Once a Roman trading hub on the Rhine, Augusta Raurica is Switzerland's largest archeological park and continue to produce ...

A new study, though, has posited that a climactic event called the Late Antique Little Ice Age may have been the straw that ...

Historians have long believed that ancient humans fought animals in arena battles, but no definitive evidence has been found ...

Lidar technology is revealing that the Mayan civilization was more complex and interconnected than previously thought.

From Dorset to Derbyshire, Wales to Wester Ross, these strolls through some of the UK's loveliest landscapes are for all ages and abilities. Mike Unwin is your guide ...

Roman gladiators’ fights to the death have inspired morbid fascination for millennia. But for something seemingly so well-documented, it’s rare for archaeologists find physical evidence of ...

Those About To Die review: Ahead of Gladiator II, indulge in a Game of Thrones-style deep dive into the Roman Empire filled with battles and chariot racing.

Historian Richard J.A. Talbert, who published a fascinating study of these instruments in Roman Portable Sundials: The Empire in Your Hand, explains that the latitude lists inscribed on the sundials ...

Night - Partly cloudy. Winds NE. The overnight low will be 30 °F (-1.1 °C). Cloudy with a high of 58 °F (14.4 °C) and a 37% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 5 to 15 mph (8 to 24.1 ...

An excavation in northern Sudan suggests there were limits to the military might of the Roman Empire – even if the Romans weren’t prepared to admit them. The imperial forces claimed they ...

Britain's descent into anarchy was disastrous for Rome and it took two years for generals dispatched by Valentian I, Emperor of the Western Roman Empire, to restore order. The final remnants of ...