As the largest town closest to the volcano, Pompeii suffered the most damage and was essentially wiped off the map. It was ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is gearing up to unlock the deepest secrets of the universe with three ...

The earthly remains of most of history’s 266 popes (plus some European royals) are buried in Rome—in dozens of catacombs and ...

Clarke, an engineer and father of six created the user-friendly map as a nod to the Seven Churches Visitation, a traditional Holy Thursday devotion started and still practiced in Rome. Clarke ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that sheds light on a little-known ice age that may have contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire. "Unusual rocks," discovered in Iceland, are believed to ...

The Roman Empire and the Chinese Han Dynasty may have stood at opposite ends of the Eurasian continent, but they did experience one thing in common — high levels of income inequality. A team of ...

This Is the Largest Gold Nugget in English History Vitellius’ short reign came during the first civil war of the Roman Empire following the death of Nero. Known as the “Year of the Four ...

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But finding the dead — that is unique for the entire Roman history.” Soldiers in the Roman Empire were typically cremated until the third century. The pit where the bodies were deposited ...

Battle at the dawn of urban Vienna Historical records show that in the late 1st century, during the reign of the emperor Domitian, costly battles took place on the Roman Empire’s northern Danube ...