The term “Celtic” often serves as an umbrella term for the “barbarian” people of Europe living outside the Greco-Roman ...

Augustus and Nero also offered peace and security for those who fell in line. Paul critiques them in his epistle to ...

The start of imperial Rome is officially dated to 27 BCE, when Gaius Octavius Caesar was awarded the name Augustus, signaling ...

And if Trump wanted to be Emperor of America, there is no better Roman emperor for Trump to emulate than Emperor Caligula, ...

Archaeologists working at Driffield Terrace, a well-preserved Roman cemetery in York, have uncovered the first direct physical evidence of gladiatorial combat between a human and fierce, wild animal.

After an earthquake damaged a city hall in Croatia, renovation work on the building’s basement unearthed the ruins an ancient Roman theater. Photo from Croatia’s Ministry of Culture and Media ...

He said the discovery left him in disbelief. Marius Mangeac found 1,469 coins dating back to the Roman Imperial Period. Screenshot of Facebook post by Marius Mangeac (Bebe Mangeac). The coins ...

Roman soldiers were partly paid in grain. If there was no bread, there was no army. “Drought from 364 ... For two years, imperial control disintegrated as raiders looted freely across the ...

Mike Bishop, an independent scholar who has extensively studied Roman gladiators and the Roman military, told Live Science in an email that "the paper is certainly interesting, largely for ...

By the third century CE, it was a key military and political hub. Constantine the Great was declared emperor there in 306. With Roman elites present, the city likely saw its share of games and ...