A nearly yearlong excavation project in northern Switzerland is offering a glimpse into life in some of the Roman empire’s ...

Travel through a tapestry of history and nature, where the Via Egnatia unfolds its secrets across four countries, inviting ...

The Via Egnatia, also known as the Ancient Macedonia Road, is a historic Roman road that stretches over 700 miles across four ...

Excavations at the Roman settlement of Augusta Raurica in northern Switzerland revealed evidence of a roadway, burial sites, ...

Austrian ruins previously known as the Desolate Castle were actually once a Roman bridgehead fort. The site served as a ...

A skeleton recovered from a Roman-era cemetery in England may mark the first physical evidence of combat between gladiators ...

The skeleton found in York suggests that gladiatorial combats with wild animals extended into Roman provinces.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to historian William Dalrymple about his latest book, "The Golden Road: How Ancient India ...

Archaeologists have discovered a 2,000-year-old Roman sandal near an ancient military fort in Oberstimm, Germany. The highly ...

It's the first-ever evidence of man-lion combat found in the Roman period.

Until now, these clashes in the arenas of the empire were only known from written records and artistic representations ...

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