Hadrian's Wall is a 73-mile set of fortifications...  ...-mile set of fortifications built across northern Roman Britain to protect it from raiding Picts. It was...  ...it from raiding Picts. It was very costly to the Empire . But according to a 2008 article in the Telegraph...  ...see the potential created by t...

Even with the limited transportation technolog...  ...trade over the world carried glass beads from the Roman Empire to the Fifth Century A.D. Utsukushi burial mound...  ...a chemical used to melt glass by craftsmen in the empire , which succeeded the Roman Republic in 27 BC and...

Some Roman Emperors violated tradition and died peacefully i...  ...t ends, particularly in last two centuries of the empire in the West. Josh Fruhlinger, once a graduate stu...

Using celebrities to sign people...  ...f is an age old technique that even the Roman Empire was familiar with. A newly translated ins...  ...ing about 1,800 years revealed that the Roman army used a mixed martial arts champ to recruit s...

René Voorburg, an archivist at the National L...  ...National Library of the Netherlands, digitized a Roman road map from about 300 AD. OmnesViae displays a...

The following is an article from The Best of the B...  ...f the slave who became the most feared man in the Roman Empire ! A noble hero meets a black-hearted villain in ba...  ...lack-hearted villain in battle! A rebel uprising! Romance , adventure, and a cast of thousands! THRACE IS...  ...d Turkey. His trib...

The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK, holds...  ...The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK, holds a Roman multitool that dates back to the 3rd Century C.E....

Eric Robinson, a farmer in Crosby Garrett, UK, ear...  ...elmet - described as "an extraordinary example of Roman metalwork at its zenith" - for £1million. Lin...

If you think that modern athletes make a lot of mo...  ...versity of Pennsylvania, states that a particular Roman chariot driver far exceeded the earnings of today...  ...year, or to pay all the ordinary soldiers of the Roman Army at the height of its imperial reach for a fi...  ...Creative Commons license Pr...

Dave Crisp, using only a metal detector, found a h...  ...metal detector, found a hoard of more than 52,000 Roman coins in Frome, UK. They were sealed inside a po...