Nero, who ruled from A.D. 54 to 68, is often remembered as one of history’s most notorious emperors, his reputation steeped in tales of excess and cruelty. One enduring myth claims that as a great ...

Hüssen faces north, the Roman Empire at his back ... and mountain watchtowers marks Rome’s limits. At its peak in the second century A.D., the empire sent soldiers to patrol a front that ...

What would Rome and the Roman Empire have been like without their ... which had about 1,000,000 people at its peak, without its large aqueducts. The Romans could have obtained their water from ...

A humorous TikTok trend last year revealed that average American guys think about the Roman Empire anywhere from once a month ...

At the height of its reign the Roman Empire held territory spanning from the Atlantic to the Tigris. The empire was a formidable political force that dominated the peoples of three separate ...

The ‘Roman Limes' represents the border line of the Roman Empire at its greatest extent in the 2nd century AD. It stretched over 5,000 km from the Atlantic coast of northern Britain, through Europe to ...

An excavation at a Roman fortress in the country of Georgia has revealed a gold offering to a god of war, a colorful mosaic ...

The Roman Empire was created and controlled by its soldiers. At the core of the army were its legions, which were without equal in their training, discipline and fighting ability. By the time ...

A gold plaque etched with Greek letters has been found at an ancient Roman fortress in Georgia. Archaeologists think it’s an offering to Jupiter Dolichenus, a god revered by Roman soldiers. The ...

Texts like the "Sortes Astrampsychi" promised insights on clients' love lives, career prospects, financial woes and families Elizabeth Djinis Despite its unusually small size, the newly unearthed ...

In 1924 Britain held sway over 400 million people in 58 countries across the globe, seven times larger than the Roman Empire at its peak. Returning the Chagos Islands is unlikely to close the ...

When the Romans invaded Britain, their army was so good that it took on armies 10 times its size and won! Most soldiers in the Roman Empire came from countries outside Italy. There were soldiers ...