He bequeathed the empire to his adopted son—a 41-year ... even in official portraits, a first for a Roman emperor. He spent more than half of his 21-year reign in the provinces and visiting ...

This marks the first Roman burial in the area identified ... and social organization in a region long considered peripheral within the Roman Empire. "Today evidence has been found that the city ...

Hundreds of Roman-era gold and silver coins were found in a field outside a village in the Netherlands, officials announced ...

By the beginning of the first century AD ... Synagogues were classified as colleges to get around Roman laws banning secret societies and the temples were allowed to collect the yearly tax ...

“Forgery and tax fraud carried severe penalties under Roman law, including hard labor or even capital punishment,” Dolganov ...

Irene of Athens was the first Greek-Roman empress to wield power as a sole ruler of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.

First up, Julius Caesar. He wasn’t actually an emperor – he was just a really powerful Roman who started the Empire. He was a great Roman general, a very popular leader and he was a bit of a ...

When Elon Musk performed a gesture that many saw as a fascist gesture, his supporters claimed it was a Roman salute. So ...

Archaeologists in Luxembourg have unearthed a stash of Roman gold coins dating back some 1,600 years. The coins are marked ...

and how those blood lead levels might have impacted cognitive capacity in denizens of the Roman Empire. The research is not the first to find a notable peak of lead pollution and human lead ...