London's first Roman basilica has been finally found - hidden underneath the basement of an unassuming office block near ...

As the limits of the Roman-controlled territory expanded northward, Hadrian ordered the wall built at the northwestern frontier of the entire Roman Empire ... that they lived under Roman control.

Born as Publius Aelius Hadrianus in Italica, Hispania (modern-day Spain), Hadrian is best known for consolidating and securing the vast Roman Empire rather than expanding it. One of his most famous ...

Hadrian’s Wall was a military barrier that established the northwest limit of the Roman Empire for more than three ... while ...

A newly translated papyrus found in Israel provides information about criminal cases and slave ownership in the Roman Empire.

Explore the fascinating narrative of forgery and tax evasion in ancient Rome through the discovery of a remarkable Greek ...

In 27 BCE, Octavian (later known as Augustus) became the first emperor, marking the official start of the Roman Empire. Under his rule, Rome entered a golden age of peace and prosperity known as ...

They were made to secure fortifications against rampaging Caledonian tribes as the Romans tightened their grip on the lands ...

“Forgery and tax fraud carried severe penalties under Roman law, including hard labor or even capital punishment,” Dolganov ...

A new discovery from the Roman empire outlines a juicy case of second-century crime. Containing an extraordinary 133 lines of ...

Scholars from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem unveil a ...

A hoard of 50 Roman coins discovered by an amateur metal detectorist buried in a farmer's field in a 'once in a lifetime find ...