Travel back to Constantinople at the height of the Eastern Roman Empire and experience the world’s greatest city through the ...

A recent study reveals nomads thrived in ancient Greece after the chaos unleashed by the collapse of the Roman Empire.

When designing his magnificent residence at Tivoli, Emperor Hadrian drew on his travels to bring the empire home with him.

Three pandemics in the Roman Empire coincided with abnormally cold and dry periods, suggesting that natural changes in climate may have contributed to Rome’s decline. The uncomfortable reality of life ...

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 ...

For the first time in North America, Unearthing Vindolanda brings 2,000-year-old ancient artifacts and immersive programming ...

P eople who know little about ancient history are still familiar with the fact that Romans persecuted Christ and Christians.

More than 1,500 years after its collapse in A.D. 476, the Roman Empire has seen a resurgence in the unlikeliest of settings — social media. Online users, predominantly on the video-sharing app TikTok, ...

An essay by Marianne Bonz describing the myriad of religious options available in the Roman Empire. Bonz is managing editor of Harvard Theological Review. She received a doctorate from Harvard ...

Archaeologists in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire unearthed a silver denarius bearing the name of Carausius, who ruled the ...

What brought down the Roman Empire? By the end of his The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, even the great historian Edward Gibbon was sick of the question. He noted that instead of speculating ...