What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?

Rome has uncovered the four large marble maps illustrating its evolution and expansion, from its foundation to the apex of its empire, hanging on the Via dei Fori, in front of the Colosseum, which had ...

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Archaeologists have traced the earliest case of lead pollution by humans to the Aegean Sea region around 5,200 years ago. The ...

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

He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

“This discovery is a testament to the meticulous administrative re-organization of the Roman Empire during the Tetrarchy,” Leibner said. “Finding a boundary stone like this not only sheds ...

Worcestershire would have the site of the Roman Empire's frontier at the time of the estimated burial, leading to the theory that the farmer could have buried the coins to hide them from any ...

The rarest find included three coins with the depiction of Emperor Eugenius, as he reigned just two years from 392 to 394 A.D. Eugenius was emperor of the Western Roman Empire but was installed by ...

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