The Roman Empire is remembered for its power, culture, and conquests — but its economy tells a very different story.

There is no polity more storied in the west than the Roman Empire, but could its fall have really been caused by its choice of plumbing material?

A casual swim off Sardinia turned into something remarkable. Near Arzachena, a diver spotted metal on the seabed. Curiosity ...

Alexander the Great conquered the region around 329 B.C.E., leaving behind Greek and Macedonian settlers who intermarried ...

Roman Philosophy Machiavelli’s Roman Empire Sam Spound explains why the author of The Prince thought about Rome so much. In ...

When Don McCullin stepped into Crowthers Reclamation Yard in Isleworth in 1963, surrounded by broken Roman busts and weathered statuary, he was already establishing his reputation as a photographer ...

Turkey has been in the news in recent weeks for a role it knows well: peacemaker. As tensions simmer between the United States and Iran, Turkey has attempted to bring U.S. and Iranian officials to the ...

An international research team has secured more than €1 million to investigate a recently uncovered Roman cult district. Roman-period archaeology in Hesse has reached a new stage of progress. The Germ ...

This marks another milestone for Roman-period archaeology in Hesse: The German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Swiss National Science Foundation ...

Several years ago, construction work for a new school in Frankfurt led to a discovery of regional importance: a large Roman ...

Milan and Cortina will be the first cohost cities in Olympic history, setting the stage for a diverse Games that will ...

It’s not every day that you find a medieval wheel cross, and it’s even rarer when the find matches another centuries-old ...