The discovery changes the whole timeline of the collapse. A 13-year archeological excavation has shown that what was once believed a backwater town for the Roman Empire lasted far longer than ...

Roman society was extremely rigid. By the first century, however, the need for capable men to run Rome’s vast empire was slowly eroding the old social barriers. The social structure of ancient ...

During a recent excavation on the grounds of a mansion in Slovakia, researchers discovered something remarkable: a Roman ...

Discover the workings of this icon of the Roman Empire. Explore a plan of the Colosseum ... and planning that lie behind this incredible structure.

Digging into the lawn of a historic mansion in the capital city of Slovakia, archaeologists and their team of university ...

A group of Roman re-enactors. The Roman army was the largest fighting force in the ancient world. It conquered a huge empire that stretched from Britain all the way to the Middle East. The ...

More than 1,500 years after its collapse in A.D. 476, the Roman Empire has seen a resurgence in the unlikeliest of settings — social media. Online users, predominantly on the video-sharing app ...