Spartacus, a Thracian gladiator who had once served in the Roman army, escaped from slavery in 73 BCE. What began as a prison ...

A re-analysis of the burials, including radiocarbon dating, has revealed that, rather than dying in a single event, ...

Göran Bengtsson, a hobby archaeologist, was studying an 18th-century map of southwestern Sweden when he noticed something unusual.

The relief depicts a woman, identified by archaeologists as the goddess Victoria, or Victory, according to the release. The counterpart to Greek goddess Nike, Victoria personified victory and was ...

The term “Celtic” often serves as an umbrella term for the “barbarian” people of Europe living outside the Greco-Roman cultural sphere. The Celts varied ethnically but have historically been grouped ...

Peter Edwell receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Something tells me US president Donald Trump would love to be a Roman emperor. The mythology of unrestrained power with ...

Lulu Roman, a gospel singer and longtime star of country music variety show "Hee Haw," has died, a close friend confirmed to USA TODAY on April 24. She was 78. Roman died April 23, in Bellingham ...

Today, AD joins architect Nick Potts in London to uncover the city’s ancient Roman origins. Before London, there was Londinium, the capital of Roman Britain, and although it was abandoned by AD ...

Before London, there was Londinium, the capital of Roman Britain, and although it was abandoned by AD 450, the influence and some remnants of the ancient city still remain.

In the “best-case scenario” the neomonarchist thinker Curtis Yarvin has postulated, America faces emulating the fall of the Roman republic. In the worst, it faces the fall of the Roman Empire.

But they were only recognised as remains of the social and civic centre of Londinium in 1923. Peter Marsden, the author of The Roman Forum Site in London (1987), compiled disconnected evidence for ...

At the time of the basilica's construction, Londinium's future had been recently in doubt as a major settlement, after it was sacked by a revolt against Roman rule several years earlier.