Locating a 1,700-year-old Roman-era sarcophagus in Budapest was exciting enough for archaeologists with the Budapest History ...

The use of wild beasts in gladiatorial contests is well-documented in ancient Roman texts, yet until now it was thought that these animal adversaries were only deployed in the Colosseum in Rome.

When the emperor Hadrian visited the province of Britannia in A.D. 122, he was in full command of the entire Roman Empire, which stretched some 2,500 miles east from northern Great Britain to ...

Attila the Hun, 434-453 A.D. illustration published in 1894. Hunnic peoples migrated westward across Eurasia, switched between farming and herding, and became violent raiders in response to severe ...

Tarraco (modern-day Tarragona) was a major administrative and mercantile city in Roman Spain and the centre of the Imperial cult for all the Iberian provinces. It was endowed with many fine buildings, ...

A shepherd walking through the highlands of Mugla’s Seydikemer district discovered a Roman‑era grave stele bearing carved ...

An archaeologist has discovered an "extraordinary" ancient Roman fort that once housed hundreds of soldiers. Researcher Mark Merrony located the remains of the fort in Pembrokeshire, a county in ...

A remarkably well-preserved Roman sarcophagus has been unearthed in Hungary’s capital, offering a rare and intimate window ...

Artifacts (left to right) such as a chalcedony cameo depicting the god Dionysus, and a glass gem showing a wounded child of the mortal Niobe, a glass bead with an image of a sacred bull, probably made ...

Archaeologists uncover an empty Roman tomb next to an ancient road, revealing a burial mystery hidden for centuries.