One of the largest Roman cemetery excavations ever conducted in Britain has come to light near Brougham in Cumbria, where ...

These ancient people were living in the center of a vast empire that spanned across Europe, northern Africa, and parts of the Middle East. Lasting over a thousand years, the ancient Roman civilization ...

An ancient civilization that ruled Mesopotamia nearly 4,000 years ago was likely wiped out because of disastrous dust storms, a new study suggests. The Akkadian Empire, which ruled what is now Iraq ...

The collapse of an ancient nomadic empire may have set off centuries of violence across the Eurasian steppe, and now archaeologists believe they have discovered a cemetery of victims from this ...

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Throughout the thousand-year reign of the Roman Empire, disparate populations began to connect in new ways—through trade routes, economic and political collaboration, and joint military endeavors. Now ...

A hair-raising display of at least 50 ancient tweezers in addition to other bathing, beauty, and medicinal artifacts by a new museum in Wroxeter, a city of Roman Britain, zeroes in on some of the ...