NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Giorgos Sachinis, director of strategy and innovation at Athens Water Supply and Sewage Company, about plans to revive an ancient aqueduct built by the Romans.

Until they were subsumed by the expanding Roman Empire in the first century B.C., the Callaeci and the Astures formed the "Castro culture" of fortified hilltop settlements — and modern-day ...

Get ready for a new Roman Empire: A NASA space telescope will detect a staggering wealth of intricate gravitational lenses that could help unlock the mysteries of dark matter.

Skeleton finds in the European part of the Roman Empire had been rare because cremation was the prevailing custom until the third century CE.

The Roman Empire was the apex predator of antiquity: powerful, terrifying, box-office. If that makes it sound like a tyrannosaur, then perhaps that is no coincidence.

Thoughtful, Independent, ProgressiveComing Out Christian in the Roman World, by Douglas Boin The "Fall of Rome...is not a historical event; it's more akin to a theological idea." So proclaims Douglas ...

Conservators in the U.K. have painstakingly reassembled a piece of Roman armor that was broken into more than 100 pieces. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

This increase in the number of senators soon reversed itself and, during the first century, the Senate consisted of 600 men. Most were either sons of senators, or were elected quaestors (junior ...

The story of Rome’s Emperors in the first century AD has got it all – love, murder and revenge, fear and greed, envy and pride. Their history is a rollercoaster that lurches from peace and ...