This ancient queen of Palmyra conquered Egypt, captured Roman provinces, and nearly transformed her realm into an empire ...

The Senate continued to meet in Rome just as it had for nearly a millennium. Latin remained the language of administration.

The Romans associated pants with barbarism and eventually banned them, but the legwear eventually became commonplace ...

The year 476 AD is often described as the moment the Roman Empire fell. But what actually happened? Romulus Augustus was deposed by Odoacer, a Germanic general serving within the Roman system. The ...

A Norwegian archaeologist believes that the Norwegians were on their way to the Roman Empire as mercenaries around the year ...

From dealing with nits to learning the three Rs, ancient Roman childhood bore some striking similarities to the modern ...

A scientist who figured out the secret behind ancient Rome's self-repairing concrete has recently confirmed his theory at a ...