It’s one of only four known Roman camps in the Netherlands and was really just a rest stop between larger fortifications.

Experts believe the lost city Tharais wasn’t just an agricultural village—it may have also been a spiritual hub.

With the death of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE, Rome entered a period of political upheaval settled only when Caesar's nephew Octavian defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra, took control of the Empire ...

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An illustration of a magnifying glass. An illustration of a magnifying glass.

From 500 BCE on, the Roman Empire extended its territory across parts of Europe and North Africa until its frontier totaled some 7,500 kilometres by the 2nd century. The Romanian segment, the Dacian ...

Chestnut Grove in Ticino, Switzerland. Credit: Oliylkaeng / CC BY-SA 4.0 Deep in the forests of southern Switzerland, sweet chestnut trees stand as living evidence of the Roman Empire’s long-reaching ...

But as the Roman Empire expanded, the presence of sweet chestnut ... Researchers in Australia put cameras on sea lions' backs to help them map the elusive ocean floor. Scientists are preparing ...

When thinking of the Roman Empire, one typically imagines marble, brick, and concrete—the materials which have allowed so many of its monuments to survive until our day. The pipe is just another ...

A Roman water pipe made of fragments of hollow tree trunks has been unearthed in Belgium. Found near what may be a water pumping system, the pipe likely dates to between the second and third ...

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