Archaeologists launch a project to analyze 4,000 Roman bricks from Trier, Germany, revealing insights into ancient building ...

The Phoenicians developed their ancient civilization with profits from the lucrative maritime trade of the Mediterranean.

The Gupta Empire is widely regarded as India’s Golden Age. Although it existed for only about 230 years (from the 3rd century ...

The 2,000-year-old artifacts exhibit a rare blend of aesthetic influences (from Persian to Classical Greek and Roman ... under the Kushan Empire that arose in the first century a.d. According ...

When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

Although the team obviously can’t tie zircon minerals to the Roman Empire’s collapse, their lengthy migration inside frozen chunks of glacier further underscore the 6th century ice age’s ...

Shai Halevi/Israel Antiquities Authority Supported by By Franz Lidz It may not have been the tax-evasion trial of the century — the ... a historian of the Roman Empire with the Austrian ...

One account, written in the mid-second century or later, and not included in the New Testament, even claimed that Jesus’ crucifixion was not ordered by Pilate. Instead, it blamed Herod Antipas, the ...

In 286 AD, Ancient Rome was split into two parts: the Western Empire and the Eastern Empire. The Western Roman Empire had ... This is the first direct evidence of icebergs carrying large ...

An unexpected discovery occurred during the renovation of a Vienna football field stadium, when construction workers found a mass grave dating back to the 1st-century Roman Empire. And it's also given ...

From the west came Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor, riding a warhorse and flanked by armed soldiers bedecked in the full pageantry of an oppressive empire ... true in first-century Jerusalem.