Rocks from Greenland found on Iceland's west coast could link the late Roman Empire's fall to a spell of sudden climate ...

A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the ...

A skeleton recovered from a Roman-era cemetery in England may mark the first physical evidence of combat between gladiators ...

"A sequence of severe summer droughts from 364 to 366 not only contributed to prolonged harvest failures and food shortages, ...

When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

Over 2,300 years have passed since the death of Alexander the Great, but he remains one of the most famous historical figures ...

When it comes to the fall of the Roman Empire, this climate shift may have been the straw that broke the camel’s back.” ...

Gladiator combat is a well-documented aspect of ancient Roman society, but the physical remains of fighters have remained ...

When Roman Egypt came under attack from the Kushites in what is now Sudan, the Roman forces responded by destroying a Kushite ...

Skeletal remains in a Roman burial ground in northern England were found to have lesions that looked suspiciously like bite ...

It's the first-ever evidence of man-lion combat found in the Roman period.

Although the team obviously can’t tie zircon minerals to the Roman Empire’s collapse, their lengthy migration inside frozen ...