The Year of the Four Emperors (69 AD) marked the first brutal civil war of the Roman Empire, plunging the empire into chaos ...

A compelling creation myth was a must for every ancient civilisation, but Rome decided that one just wasn’t enough. In myth ...

Women secured critical progress in the Roman republic. Their rights were rolled back with the republic's collapse.

Emperors of ancient Rome tended to die bloody, violent deaths. In fact, a Roman gladiator had better odds of surviving a brutal fight in the arena than an emperor had of dying peacefully of natural ...

The Roman Empire might have been bigger than we first thought. The uncovering of a hidden road network demonstrates the ...

Ubisoft historians Thierry Noël and Eve Ben-Haïm reveal how Anno 117: Pax Romana brings the Roman Empire to life through ...

What have the Romans ever done for us?” quipped my partner, Ed, as we stood on the main street of Nicopolis ad Istrum, formerly a Roman town in Bulgaria that is now a glorious assemblage of ruins.

Archaeologists excavating in southwestern France have uncovered one of the most remarkable Roman burial discoveries in recent decades - a richly furnished funeral pyre containing gold treasures, ...