These businessmen successfully navigated the grey zones of contraband, clandestine trade and smuggling from Youghal to Havana ...

About 2,000 years ago, the powerful Roman Empire established a boundary at the northern edge of its territory in continental ...

Ancient Rome was a rigidly hierarchical society where the ruling elite stigmatized everyone who had to work with their hands. Yet Roman workers still found ways to resist exploitation through strikes ...

Part of a road in Cyprus collapsed, revealing a long-forgotten tomb from about 2,000 years ago, officials said. Photos show ...

Locals near Brazil’s Fonte Boa region initially discovered the large urns sticking out of the ground where a tree was uprooted, experts said.

Digging into the chalky orange-brown soil of western Germany, archaeologists exposed the ruins of an ancient Roman military ...

The most remarkable find, however, was discovered in the state room of a domus, or a Roman house built in an urban area and typically occupied by a wealthy family, according to the release. A roughly ...

Imagine a world where Constantinople never fell and the Eastern Roman Empire still thrived. This video explores how history, politics, and even religion might look today.

Ole Ginnerup Schytz, an engineer in Denmark’s sleepy Vindelev agricultural area, had used a metal detector only a handful of times when he found a bent clump of metal in a friend’s barley field. At ...

The Gough Map, with the ‘red lines’ highlighted in yellow. Credit: Linguistic Geographies and The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford Roman Legacy in the Middle Ages The Roman Empire created an ...

After the Barbarian sacks of Rome around 400-500 AD, which signalled the beginning of the end of the Roman Empire amid widespread upheaval, the chestnut pollen percentage then drops temporarily.

Barbarian warriors who toppled the Roman Empire were high on hallucinogenic drugs at the time of their great conquests, according to researchers. The shocking conclusion has come from Polish ...