Few figures in history have been as polarizing as Nero, the infamous Roman emperor who had a love affair with everything ...

Was it a bar brawl? Archaeologists will never know what killed these two people found near an ancient Roman site.

The marbles in the Torlonia Collection have been inaccessible to the public for decades. Now, some of them will be exhibited ...

The gold coin was discovered over 300 years ago in Transylvania, but up until recently it was kept tucked away in a museum ...

Stunningly and unexpected, virtually all of the selections on view in this exhibition are complete. Co-organized by the Art ...

When the Roman Empire began collapsing, Christianity prevailed and the Roman Catholic Church kept its territories together.

Sifting through the dark brown soil of southwestern Scotland, archaeologists unearthed a “rare” and “visually striking” Roman ...

The excavation of an ancient Roman city has rewritten the history of the Empire's collapse, archaeologists say. A team of researchers led by the University of Cambridge completed a 13-year dig at ...

Excavations at a central Italian city upended the belief that it served as a “backwater town” during the Roman era, finding instead it was a thriving centre till the 3rd century. At such a critical ...

The ancient Roman brooch found at an Iron Age ... They are “most commonly found along the borders of the Roman Empire, in eastern Gaul (modern-day France), Switzerland and the Rhineland (modern- ...