A supposed "backwater" of the Roman Empire is challenging traditional assumptions about the ancient civilization's decline, according to a research project that has lasted more than a decade. For 13 ...

The discovery changes the whole timeline of the collapse.

Students of all periods of ancient history face the challenge of having to rely on the light cast by available evidence, and the latest addition to PBS’s Empires series, The Roman Empire in the First ...

The transformation of the Roman Empire into what modern historians call Byzantium was not a single event but a gradual ...

ROME (AP) — Italian authorities on Tuesday announced the extraordinary discovery of 2,000-year-old bronze statues in an ancient Tuscan thermal spring and said the find will “rewrite history” about the ...

H ave you thought about where the water in your house comes from? If you live in a city, it probably comes from borewells ...

There is a trend on the internet of women asking the men in their lives a historical question: How often do you think about the Roman Empire? They’re surprised by the answer. Heritage Vice President ...

Papyri from the Roman Empire provide authentic insight into how Christians in antiquity imagined Joseph and Mary's experiences with the census. In the guest blog on Papyrology, ancient historian Anna ...

If you were the kind of kid who couldn't wait for the days when you watched documentaries in elementary school, well then, you'd better add Netflix's Roman Empire to the top of your list. Season 1, ...