Irene of Athens was the first Greek-Roman empress to wield power as a sole ruler of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.

Learn what this Roman emperor's secret garden meant to Roman society and why the discovery speaks to ancient Roman life.

Hundreds of Roman-era gold and silver coins were found in a field outside a village in the Netherlands, officials announced ...

What we think of as the Roman Empire lasted from 27 BCE to 476 AD. But the end of the Roman Empire is way more complicated than that, with some putting the official end at 1453, some at 1806, and some ...

In 1985, a war came to an official end – 2,131 years after its final battle. For centuries during the pre-Christian era, two ...

A 1,600-year-old golden lock unearthed in Germany reveals Roman craftsmanship and sparks curiosity about its use and ...

Unearthed in Upper Galilee, 3rd century CE artifact might prove rumored tensions between Emperor Diocletian and local ...

During the Roman Empire, bathhouses were more than a clean place to rinse off the grime from the grind; they were central to ...

Bunnik, the village where they were buried, was once along the northern border of the Roman Empire. It's the first ... between 46 and 47 A.D., around the end of the first Roman conquests in ...

Nolfi spoke to Film Stories about his take on the Rey movie, and, when the publication pointed out that philosophy and ...

I’ve always loved history. For all the wild stories authors and screenwriters dream up, it’s hard to top a Roman emperor ...