A new discovery from the Roman empire outlines a juicy case of second-century crime. Containing an extraordinary 133 lines of ...

A metal detectorist in Germany has unearthed a tiny ancient Roman golden lock. The 1,600-year-old artifact is likely the ...

“Forgery and tax fraud carried severe penalties under Roman law, including hard labor or even capital punishment,” Dolganov explained.

Remains of a civic basilica give archaeologists clues to what the original layout of Roman London looked like.

"This is the best-documented Roman court case from Iudaea apart from the trial of Jesus," said one researcher.

Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948. This text is part of the Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA, http://timea.rice.edu), funded by the Institute of Museum ...

What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?

Wealth, culture, and power dwelled in the city of Palmyra in the third century A.D. This cosmopolitan capital of the Roman province of the same name lay close to the empire’s eastern borders ...

In Britain, at the northernmost edge of the empire, Rome’s normal strategies for command and control of its provinces failed horribly. For the first time in memory, the Roman army was in retreat ...