There is no polity more storied in the west than the Roman Empire, but could its fall have really been caused by its choice of plumbing material?

Before the Punic Wars, as Rome and Carthage edged towards conflict in the third century BC, the balance of power in the ...

Earlier this year, a British museum said it was reclassifying an ancient Roman emperor, depicted on a coin in its collection, as a transgender woman. So what do historians think about this move and is ...

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

Caligula, the ancient Roman emperor infamous for his insanity and cruelty, may have had a soft spot for plants, according to recently published research. A new study co-authored by Trevor Luke, a ...

A letter written by a Roman emperor helped lead a team of archaeologists to an ancient temple that "adds significant insights into the social changes" from pagan beliefs to Christianity in the Roman ...

The ancient Romans had very different ideas about bodies, sex, and gender to us.Piero M. Bianchi/ Getty We tend to think about people in the past as more prudish and strict about sex and gender. But ...

Archaeologists think the newly discovered artifacts remained at the production site because they were deemed unusable. Large ...

Archaeologists have unearthed tombs and a shrine dedicated to Hercules from the time of the Roman Republic.

This is the story of Marcus Aurelius, the last of the "Five Good Emperors" of Rome, and of the teachings of Stoicism, which influenced his journey.

You don’t need a time machine or a transatlantic flight to step inside ancient Rome ’s most infamous arena. Starting on ...