Chestnut trees reveal the lasting impact of the Roman Empire on Europe’s landscape, showing how Romans shaped forestry across ...

With a highly sought-after setting and a host of welcome changes already showcased, Anno 117: Pax Romana will hopefully scratch that ceaseless itch for those who can’t stop thinking about the Roman ...

I was surprised at David Brooks’s reductive binary between pagans and Judeo-Christians. He depicts the Romans in a simplistic ...

The Romans didn’t just export the trees around Europe but also the arboriculture, tree cultivation techniques, that the different civilizations they brought under their control ended up sharing.

Roman society was, in many ways, surprisingly sophisticated. It built remarkable things like aqueducts that snaked over long ...

A recent archaeological excavation in Switzerland took a somber turn when historians discovered a collection of infant ...

Tourism is surging in many places around the world—swarmed national parks, throngs of visitors amassing in churches and ...

A team ventured into the 2,000-year-old structures under a town in Spain and found some unfamiliar-looking animals. Take a ...

An amateur metal detectorist discovered a buried hoard of nearly 1,500 Roman coins near Bucharest, Romania. The coins, which ...

The dual-careers of Peter Paul Rubens, working as both a court painter and a highly respected European diplomat, won him ...