The British northern frontier was the edge of the Roman world — and a place of violence, boredom and opportunity, experts ...
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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 ...
New DNA analysis reveals how the rise and fall of the Roman Empire ultimately shifted the population in the Balkans.
A discovery in Sardinia reveals up to 50,000 intact Roman coins, prompting research into trade, shipwrecks, and Mediterranean ...
A digital atlas of ancient Rome’s highways and byways reveals a road network that was more extensive than thought.
Ancient Romans were big fans of olive oil, consuming an average of five gallons per person per year by one estimate. Beyond ...
While excavating at the ancient fort of La Loma in the northern Iberian Peninsula, archaeologists found the shattered ...
Ancient Roman ideas of privacy differed radically from our own, and their communal toilets reveal a mindset almost impossible ...