Ancient shipwrecks have given scientists fresh insights into why the final remnants of the Roman Empire collapsed - nearly ... (modern-day Israel and the West Bank) and Egypt, and the Islamic ...

Originally, the West was the Catholic Western Roman Empire, with its capital in Rome, while the East was the Eastern Orthodox Roman Empire, centred around Byzantium. Much of the latter was ...

The Roman emperors were once the most famous people in the world, ruling over an empire that stretched between what are now ...

Archaeologists uncovered a boundary stone, used to mark land borders during the Roman Empire, dated to a period during which ...

Archaeologists in Luxembourg have discovered a lavish 1,700-year-old hoard of Roman gold coins that had been placed near the foundations of a small, tower-like Roman fort.

The Roman army was the largest fighting force in the ancient world. It conquered a huge empire that stretched from Britain all the way to the Middle East. The soldiers were the best trained ...