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

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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists think that as many as 150 individuals may have been hastily buried at the site, likely after a "catastrophic" military event ...

The 8,000-year-old tradition took root in France around the sixth century B.C. when the southern Gauls were settled by the Greeks, later to be encapsulated in the Roman Empire. Now, archaeologists ...

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