When in 955 ad a 20,000-strong force of Magyar raiders besieged the city of Augsburg, Saxon King Otto I gathered an army to ...

Centuries of church schisms show that if there’s a doctrine to be fought over, there’s a good chance Christians will fight ...

Ca' Foscari University of Venice is co-directing a major international archaeological mission in the Kasserine region of Tunisia. The excavations, focused on the area of ancient Roman Cillium, on the ...

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Built between the 9th and 7th centuries BC, the Fortress of Van overlooks the modern-day city of the same name and the ruins ...

Two years ago, the American Museum of Natural History in New York released a video that vividly illustrates the evolution of ...

Researcherσ fοθνδ hidden signatures on Roman glass cups, revealing the craftsmen and workshops behind the empire’s most ...

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Itiner-e not only duplicates cartographic knowledge of Roman roads, but transforms our understanding of how the Roman Empire ...

Prior to a full-scale Roman invasion of Britain, the relationship between the two was strained and marginal. There is no doubt that the tribes of Britannia knew about the Romans and their advanced ...

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A new comprehensive map reveals the true scale of the ancient Roman road network – but it is still incomplete.