The British northern frontier was the edge of the Roman world — and a place of violence, boredom and opportunity, experts ...

New DNA analysis reveals how the rise and fall of the Roman Empire ultimately shifted the population in the Balkans.

Lime granules trapped in ancient walls show Romans relied on a reactive hot-mix method to making concrete that could now ...

A digital atlas of ancient Rome’s highways and byways reveals a road network that was more extensive than thought.

Berenike was an isolated, windswept outpost. It linked the Roman Empire to the trade routes of India, Arabia, and East Africa ...

Concrete was the foundation of the Roman Empire. For centuries, researchers have tried to uncover the secret behind the ...

Other Roman emperors met far more bloody ends than the cheese-loving Antoninus. Nero committed suicide; Galba was murdered by his bodyguards, the praetorians; and Geta was murdered by his brother ...

Elizabeth M. Greene and collaborators are investigating the Roman Empire’s leather economy thanks to $2.4M CDN in grant funding.

Though rare, female gladiators did appear in the Roman arena, challenging ancient Rome’s expectations and revealing how ...

A discovery in Sardinia reveals up to 50,000 intact Roman coins, prompting research into trade, shipwrecks, and Mediterranean ...

For the first time in 2,000 years, a Roman arm guard can be seen in its entirety after a painstaking reconstruction that saw the assembly of dozens of found fragments. The piece of brass armor was ...