Throughout the history of Rome, from the republic to the age of empire, the Roman Legions were the best conventional fighting ...

Researchers have uncovered a remarkable find with the help of advanced AI that could challenge longstanding beliefs about ...

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 ...

The Italian writer, once Mussolini’s pet propagandist and later a literary cult hero, was an unmatched chronicler of Europe’s ...

The professor points out it’s a more common pattern than people imagine. One ancient writer, Theodorus, describes how Celtic warriors would strip naked, sleep with one another, and think nothing of it ...

UNESCO World Heritage CentreFrom 500 BCE on, the Roman Empire extended its territory across parts of Europe and North Africa until its frontier totaled some 7,500 kilometres by the 2nd century. The ...

The last major Roman civil war is thought to have been fought in the Vipava area in today's western Slovenia in 394. While written records of the Battle of the Frigidus exist, its exact location could ...

In the area where they found evidence of Roman-era habitation, crews also discovered a grave near a ditch—just one shallow burial of a man believed to be between 25 and 35 years old at the time ...

Archaeology breakthrough as rare Roman coins worth £258k found in Luxembourg The coins cast a new light on the wealth and turmoil of the Roman Empire's twilight years. By Joel Day ...

Archaeologists in Luxembourg unearthed a treasure of 141 Roman gold coins, known as solidi, dating back to the late 4th century CE at the village of Holzthum in northern Luxembourg.

The Roman Army at War, 100 BC - AD 200 by AK Goldsworthy (Oxford, 1996) Roman Forts by A Johnson (London, 1983) Late Roman Fortifications by S Johnson (London, 1983) ...