A newly translated papyrus found in Israel provides information about criminal cases and slave ownership in the Roman Empire.

Sometimes the most significant historical discoveries happen by accident. When Professor Hannah Cotton Paltiel volunteered to ...

Archaeologists in Luxembourg have discovered a lavish 1,700-year-old hoard of Roman gold coins that had been placed near the foundations of a small, tower-like Roman fort.

A rediscovered Greek papyrus details a Roman court case in Iudaea involving tax fraud, forgery, and possible rebellion on the ...

His will broken, he died soon afterwards. 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 ...

The emperor Hadrian was well known for building monuments across the Roman Empire, a territory that had reached its widest extent when his reign began ... members of the court, guests, and ...

The Roman emperor Nero is known as one of history’s most brutal and eccentric leaders. He is said to have killed his mother, stepbrother and wives, persecuted Christians and squandered a fortune ...

an illegitimate emperor of the Western Roman Empire who reigned for only two years (392 to 394). This usurper, Eugenius, a rhetoric teacher and court official, was proclaimed emperor of the West ...