AD joins architect Nick Potts in London to uncover the city’s ancient Roman origins. Before London, there was Londinium, the ...

New, almost life-size statues discovered in a necropolis in Pompeii. Details about the possible Roman priestess.

Over 2,300 years have passed since the death of Alexander the Great, but he remains one of the most famous historical figures ...

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

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

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

The Kingdom of Thessalonica was a short-lived state that emerged during the Fourth Crusade after the sack of Constantinople ...

A recent paper analyses legal documents from the Roman empire that detail the prosecution of a tax evasion case on papyrus.

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 in the west (which covered vast swathes of Europe and the Middle East as well as parts of North Africa) and the Han Dynasty in the east (which incorporated much of what is modern-day ...

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 ...