Artists have long depicted Roman gladiators battling it out against big cats as you can see in this mosaic created in A.D. 320 in Rome. However, there has never been any physical evidence to ...

A new study by archaeologists at Bournemouth University has revealed that bodies recovered from a "war-cemetery," previously attributed to the Roman Conquest of Britain at Maiden Castle Iron Age ...

The Roman Empire meme just got real. Anno 117: Pax Romana lets you try building Rome in a day with better roads, buildings, and more strategy. Anno 117: Pax Romana lets players try to build Rome ...

Archaeologists uncovered ancient military fortifications from Ptolemaic and Roman eras in Egypt's Tell Abu Sefeh, revealing strategic defenses that protected Egypt's eastern frontier.

While the subject is vast, the ruins sometimes seem to be lost in the background, which, of course, was often their fate in landscape paintings of the Roman campagna.

Today's WorldView How ancient India changed the world. The Indian subcontinent’s connections to the West, especially via the Roman empire, were far richer than once thought.

The chestnut trees of Europe tell a hidden story charting the fortunes of ancient Rome and the legacy it left in the continent's forests.

Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy. These "free-floating" worlds don't orbit stars, but instead roam the ...

Much of the growth is happening in Africa, where the number of Catholics climbed more than 3%, from 272 million in 2022 to 281 million in 2023, the news agency said.

All Roman Catholics are Christians, but not the other way around, differing in beliefs about the sacraments, the pope, the saints and the Virgin Mary.

A well-defined horse cemetery uncovered in Stuttgart’s Bad Cannstatt neighborhood was the final resting place for over 100 horses that were part of the Roman Empire’s cavalry in the second ...

In a solemn and majestic funeral on the steps of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Roman Catholic Church on Saturday laid to rest Pope Francis, the first South American pope, whose simple style ...