A team of researchers has managed to extract and sequence DNA from fish remains found in an ancient Roman salting factory in ...

A rare Roman military camp discovered deep in the Dutch Veluwe reveals the empire's reach extended far beyond its known ...

What if the Eastern Roman Empire had survived into modern times? This video examines how history might have unfolded differently after the fall of the West.

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

On Shattered Lands, his book about the five partitions of the Indian Empire and the many forgotten stories attached to them ...

Eight days’ hiking lets you imagine the weird and wonderful lives of those who once lived at the Roman Empire’s northern frontier ...

At its height in 117 AD, the Roman Empire covered 40 modern nations and 5 million square km. Sea crossings aside, you could walk from northern Britain to the Persian Gulf and have never left the ...

We're still waiting on a specific release date for 117, but so far, it feels like more than just Anno with a Roman reskin. At face value, Ubisoft's strategy game might be hard to translate to the ...

The ancient Romans left an indelible imprint on the world they enveloped into their empire. The straight, long-distance roads they built can still be followed beneath the asphalt of some modern ...

Today, AD joins architect Nick Potts in London to uncover the city’s ancient Roman origins. Before London, there was Londinium, the capital of Roman Britain, and although it was abandoned by AD ...

You might think that, in this increasingly tech-obsessed era of unsleeping smartphones, ever-watchful satellites and GPS navigation, there’s nothing of our world left to discover. And yet, as ...

Over a 10-year period, fighting across modern-day Turkey, the Middle East, and as far away as Afghanistan and Pakistan, Alexander routed Persian king Darius III, taking the empire for his own.