New research suggests the Romans used a method known as "hot mixing" to produce self-healing concrete, which allowed them to ...

The Holy Roman Empire, despite the name, was Germanic, but why was it called Roman if it had nothing to do with the Romans?

Lime granules trapped in ancient walls show Romans relied on a reactive hot-mix method to making concrete that could now ...

While excavating at the ancient fort of La Loma in the northern Iberian Peninsula, archaeologists found the shattered ...

New research shows Roman gold and silver mining in the Balkans was central to imperial finances, coinage, and power for ...

A discovery in Sardinia reveals up to 50,000 intact Roman coins, prompting research into trade, shipwrecks, and Mediterranean routes.

Tim Newcomb is a journalist based in the Pacific Northwest. He covers stadiums, sneakers, gear, infrastructure, and more for ...

Other Roman emperors met far more bloody ends than the cheese-loving Antoninus. Nero committed suicide; Galba was murdered by his bodyguards, the praetorians; and Geta was murdered by his brother ...

For centuries, 476 has been taught as the dramatic end of the Roman Empire. Modern scholarship tells a very different story—one not of sudden collapse, but of slow transformation and historical ...

A wedding ring believed to be from the Roman era has been discovered in northwestern Bulgaria. The jewelry piece, which is ...

Though rare, female gladiators did appear in the Roman arena, challenging ancient Rome’s expectations and revealing how spectacle, politics and social boundaries shaped life in the empire ...