A newly translated papyrus found in Israel provides information about criminal cases and slave ownership in the Roman Empire.
"This is the best-documented Roman court case from Iudaea apart from the trial of Jesus," said one researcher.
Archaeologists in Luxembourg have unearthed a stash of Roman gold coins dating back some 1,600 years. The coins are marked ...
The mantra of 'detach to protect' often misses a critical point: avoiding emotions doesn’t make them disappear.
Archaeologists have uncovered a rare ancient Roman artifact that has revealed previously unknown places lost to time. The ...
The expansion of the Roman empire to Greece 2,100 years ago coincided with a rise in lead pollution as a by-product of an increased demand for metals, according to some of the earliest traces of of ...
In the 1953 film Roman Holiday, Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck's characters visit The Mouth of Truth, an ancient sculpture in Rome. "The legend is that if you're given to lying, you put your hand in ...
Irene of Athens was the first Greek-Roman empress to wield power as a sole ruler of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.
Hundreds of Roman-era gold and silver coins were found in a field outside a village in the Netherlands, officials announced ...