Eight days’ hiking lets you imagine the weird and wonderful lives of those who once lived at the Roman Empire’s northern ...

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.

How do you keep calm in times of crisis? What do people need to be happy? Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius is often quoted ...

One of the biggest questions researchers and armchair historians ponder and debate is how the Western Roman Empire fell. While innumerable theories have been put forward to answer this question ...

A humorous TikTok trend last year revealed that average American guys think about the Roman Empire anywhere from once a month to several times a day. If you’re a guy, what will surprise you abou ...

Despite falling around 2,500 years ago, the Roman Empire can still be felt in aspects of everyday life —from Latin, which ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

(A. Slonek/Novetus via AP) Soldiers in the Roman Empire were typically cremated until the 3rd century. The pit where the bodies were deposited suggests a hasty or disorganized dumping of corpses.

But finding the dead, that is unique for the entire Roman history." Soldiers in the Roman Empire were typically cremated until the 3rd century. The pit where the bodies were deposited suggests a ...

But as the Roman Empire expanded, the presence of sweet ... the word for "chestnut" is similar to the Latin "castanea" in many languages.