Tassan was showing me a milliaire, or milestone, one of hundreds planted along the highways of Gaul at the time of the Roman Empire ... stormed across the Rhine River intent upon seizing Aquae ...

One hundred feet below, the icy Aksu River, known in ancient times ... and traversing the ruins of Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine cities. Map: Guilbert Gates; Source: British Institute of ...

Rain over the Easter weekend in Germany has raised Rhine river water levels, with vessels able to carry more cargo, though the river is still too shallow for normal sailings, commodity traders ...

HAMBURG (Reuters) -Rain in past few days has raised Rhine river water levels in Germany, with vessels able to carry more cargo although most are still sailing around half full, commodity traders said ...

An excavation in northern Sudan suggests there were limits to the military might of the Roman Empire – even if the Romans weren’t prepared to admit them. The imperial forces claimed they ...

Britain's descent into anarchy was disastrous for Rome and it took two years for generals dispatched by Valentian I, Emperor of the Western Roman Empire ... stripped for the Rhine frontier ...

crashed into a pole and landed into the water of the Boardman River. The sheriff’s office said the car was not fully submerged in the water. The 40-year-old woman is from Empire and deputies say ...

Aside from raising the risk of forest fires, the lack of rainfall is also impacting crops, animal populations and shipping on the Rhine river, Europe's busiest inland waterway.

The College of Cardinals will convene on May 7th at the Sistine Chapel to elect Pope Francis' successor. Catholicism is the largest branch of Christianity, differing from other branches primarily ...

Roman gladiators’ fights to the death have inspired morbid fascination for millennia. But for something seemingly so well-documented, it’s rare for archaeologists find physical evidence of ...