The hat lay flattened and moth-eaten for more than a century in a museum box. Now, the rare 2,000-year-old headpiece (made ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Bosra, once the capital of the Roman province of Arabia, was an important stopover on the ancient caravan route to Mecca. A magnificent 2nd-century Roman theatre, early Christian ruins and several ...

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.

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

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.