At this point history took a sharp turn. Shortly before Nerva died, Roman generals had debated who should be the next emperor. They chose Trajan, a former army commander, senator and governor of ...

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

When digging through the rubble of an ancient church foundation, archaeologists found something unexpected. As crews in Rome ...

So yeah. The Roman Empire may have fallen 1500 years ago, but if you’re one of the apparent 25% of the Western populace who thinks about it on a regular basis, it still feels pretty relevant today.

A trio of researchers from Bocconi University, in Italy, the University of Cambridge, in the U.K., and Stanford University, ...

By Eve Sampson Under a soccer field in a Vienna neighborhood along the Danube, archaeologists have found a mass grave dating to the era when the Roman Empire was battling Germanic tribes almost ...