On Shattered Lands, his book about the five partitions of the Indian Empire and the many forgotten stories attached to them ...

Between 98-117 AD, the Roman Empire stretched from Europe, Asia Minor and North Africa reaching its maximum size of roughly 5 million square kilometers. Between 98-117 AD, ...

Students from the Constructing the Limes project, together with archaeologists from Saxion University, discovered a Roman military camp in Veluwe, the largest forest in the Netherlands, near the town ...

A new gold-based economy took hold, concentrating wealth and widening social divisions. Collapse of a system. When warfare and external invasions hit in the 7th century—most notably the Persian-Roman ...

The roads built by the Romans in Britain continued to be used for both travel and trade in the Middle Ages for more than a thousand years after the fall of the Roman Empire, according to a recent ...

So far, Pope Leo XIV has leaned fairly heavily into the legacy of his storied predecessor, Leo XIII, but he reflects Leo X.

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.

As the Roman Empire declined, so too did the Colosseum. It was badly damaged by a major fire in 217, which led to a round of repairs. Later that century, gladiatorial fights were officially banned. It ...

This seminal work of Roman legal thought heavily drew its inspiration from Greek laws, particularly those of Solon of Athens. According to Roman historian Titus Livius, known in the English-speaking ...

But the miracle of Easter didn’t end there. What happened across Rome in the years that followed was in some ways just as astonishing. Before Christianity became a religion, it was the ...

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 ...