By Eve Sampson Under a soccer field in a Vienna neighborhood along the Danube, archaeologists have found a mass grave dating to the era when the Roman Empire was battling Germanic tribes almost ...

But finding the dead — that is unique for the entire Roman history.” Soldiers in the Roman Empire were typically cremated until the third century. The pit where the bodies were deposited ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that sheds light on a little-known ice age that may have contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire. "Unusual rocks," discovered in Iceland, are believed to ...

Archaeologists think that as many as 150 individuals may have been hastily buried at the site, likely after a “catastrophic” military event Cool Finds A new exhibition at the London Museum ...

Battle at the dawn of urban Vienna Historical records show that in the late 1st century, during the reign of the emperor Domitian, costly battles took place on the Roman Empire’s northern Danube ...

Researchers have found evidence to suggest that a 'little ice age' contributed to the Roman Empire's collapse 572 years ago. Experts have long theorized that a change in Earth's climate may ...

The Pax Romana, kickstarted by Rome’s first emperor Augustus after his defeat of Mark Antony and Cleopatra in 31 B.C.E., ushered in a new age of Roman history. In this new time period, military ...

Hadrian's Wall marked the Northern Frontier, the northernmost point of the Roman Empire. And you mustn't forget that the Roman Empire was massive. If you imagine you are standing here, then you ...

The Greeks of Cappadocia, in central-eastern Anatolia, created their own flourishing culture in ancient times that thrived ...

Holy water is also removed from the fonts in churches on Good Friday and ... They were writing for an audience beyond Palestine, and in the Roman Empire of the first century, there was no general ...