Its many streets and buildings are still being excavated by archaeologists and offer an unprecedented glimpse into life in the Roman Empire. Below are 14 facts about Pompeii. Pompeii is situated ...

Hussain Didi via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 Did lead poisoning contribute to the fall of the Roman Empire ... caused industrial pollution in history. To estimate lead pollution levels ...

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 ...

Archaeologists uncovered a boundary stone, used to mark land borders during the Roman Empire, dated to a period ... of the socio-economic and geographic history of the region.” ...

the empire stayed strong for hundreds of years before collapsing in 476 AD. Learn more about their storied past with these six interesting facts about Roman history, ranging from eating habits to ...

Iron Maiden have written songs about dinosaurs, the Second World War and many, many things in between. So, here’s the history of Planet Earth as told through the metal legends’ lyrics.

Starting out as a Roman statesman and military leader, Augustus used his cunning and political leverage to become the first … ...

Watching TV is probably one of the most common hobbies people have. There’s a good reason for it – since it’s said that we’re ...

At such a critical moment in US history ... four commanders of the four Roman legions based in Britain. They would all have been members of the Roman Senate (the empire's ‘parliament’ in ...

Saul Loebmandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images I recently learned of a viral social-media trend suggesting men spend inordinate amounts of time thinking about the Roman Empire. There’s a sly inference ...

Historian of fascism here. That was a Nazi salute - and a very belligerent one too,” a New York University history professor ...