A new exhibition in Hungary brings ancient residents of the Roman frontier city of Aquincum to life with detailed facial ...

Using archaeology, anthropology and DNA analysis, experts reconstructed Roman-era faces and paired them with imagined life ...

When the Western Roman Empire fell in 476 AD, it is often imagined as a moment of sudden collapse and chaos. But for the ...

Frieze from Roman sarcophagus representing Putti with sundial (140–160 CE), marble (courtesy Musée du Louvre, Paris, Département des Antiquités grecques ...

Most Romans lived not in marble villas, but in crowded apartment blocks called insulae. These buildings offered shops, rented ...

Roman history began in 753 B.C.E., when Romulus killed his twin brother and founded the city that would eventually rule the Mediterranean. That power would be built on slavery. No modern depiction of ...

The life of a Roman soldier was full of risk, danger and camraderie, but it could also be beset with loneliness. Many soldiers joined in order to build a better future for themselves. We know this was ...

Soldiers and civilians alike enjoyed strategy game Ludus Latrunculorum in the Roman Empire, especially in Roman Britain ...

For wealthy Romans, life was good. They lived in beautiful houses – often on the hills outside Rome, away from the noise and the smell. They enjoyed an extravagant lifestyle with luxurious furnishings ...

Leaving a major political body is nothing new for mainland Britain. In 409AD, more than 350 years after the Roman conquest of 43AD, the island slipped from the control of the Roman Empire. Much like ...