A new study reveals Roman Emperor Caligula may have surprisingly possessed medical knowledge, including the use of ancient ...

Was Caligula misunderstood? New research shows the Roman emperor likely knew more about medicinal plants than historians once ...

A Roman-era bridge was discovered in the ancient city of Elefsina, west of Athens during works for a suburban railway line.

A common whiff in the Roman city would have come from the animals and the waste they created. Roman bakeries frequently used ...

Having studied ancient Roman politics for years, America's rejection of kingship reminds me vividly of the strong aversion to it in the Roman republic.

Commoners in the Roman Empire frequently snacked on inexpensive fried songbirds at roadside shops, archaeologists said after analysing an ancient trash pit in Spain. Such fast-food joints, known ...

In 1966, archaeologists discovered a Roman building measuring over 7,000 square feet. It turns out it was a small part of a 43,000-square-foot villa.

Archaeologists in France Discover Giant Roman Gallic Villa Hiding in Plain Sight A recent excavation reveals that a large building excavated in 1966 was just a part of an even grander ancient complex.

Victor Davis Hanson compares America's current historical moment to the period surrounding the life of Christ, when the Roman Republic transformed into the Roman Empire, during an interview with ...

The work, led by Ph.D. researcher Gonzalo Oteo-García, has revealed the huge impact of a major historic ethnic cleansing episode in the Iberian Peninsula through the study of ancient DNA from the ...

He deserves to be studied fairly but critically, because the decisions he made concerning Ancient Rome’s statecraft and diplomacy ensured that its empire would last for centuries. How he did so is the ...

With a win-loss record little better than the ancient birdwatchers, economists are often in error, but rarely in doubt.