A Roman Gentleman Under the Empire. By Harriet Waters Preston. June 1886 Issue. Share. Save.

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 ...

An unexpected discovery occurred during the renovation of a Vienna football field stadium, when construction workers found a mass grave dating back to the 1st-century Roman Empire. And it's also ...

Discovery of mass grave under football pitch changes what we know about the Roman Empire ... Soldiers in the Roman Empire were typically cremated until the 3rd century.

Under a soccer field in a Vienna neighborhood along the Danube River, archaeologists have found a mass grave dating to the era when the Roman Empire was battling Germanic tribes almost 2,000 years ...

A viral trend about the Roman Empire puts on display our cultural obsession with myths about classical history, writes historian David M. Perry; at the same time, it underscores a social ...

Hadrian’s Wall in modern-day England marked one of the northern borders of the Roman Empire. But excavations along the wall are bringing to light a hidden history of the army and the Roman ...

A nearly yearlong excavation project in northern Switzerland is offering a glimpse into life in some of the Roman empire’s furthest northwestern settlements. These 2,000-year-old remains of ...

Ancient Rome refers to a city that became the center of an empire that flourished for roughly 600 years. During that time, the empire would grow to stretch from northern England to the Middle East ...

An office building from the 1930s in the heart of London was about to be demolished and redeveloped by its owners — until archaeologists unearthed remnants of the city’s first Roman basilica ...

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 2,000 years ago ...