The 1st century CE Roman author Tacitus is one of the most important primary sources that we have for Rome under the ...

From the fall of Rome to the rise of Christianity, Tom Holland's books offer a modern lens on ancient history. Here, we rank ...

Good old Livy (59 B.C.-A.D. 17) in his Early History of Rome, Vol. I, tells us that “the study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind” and ...

A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the ...

Researchers compared the markings found on an ancient skeleton in England to bones that had been chewed on by cheetahs, lions ...

It's the first physical evidence of gladiator-animal combat in the Roman Empire. Forced to fight animals and each other for entertainment, gladiators loom large in the public imagination of the ...

The skeleton was excavated from Driffield Terrace, one of the most significant Roman-era burial sites in Britain.

Discover how droughts contributed to the Barbarian Conspiracy invasion and affected Roman control in southern Britain.

The site’s location—on the shore of the Danube River and along the trade route known as the Amber Road, which led from the Baltics via Carnuntum to the Roman Empire—offered a critical trade ...

The first skeletal evidence of a gladiator show or execution involving an exotic animal comes from a Roman British man with bite marks from a lion.