A gold shilling located by a metal detectorist near Norwich may be no larger than a fingernail, but it wields quite a bit of ...

The Franks, a Germanic tribe that rose to prominence during the fall of the Roman Empire, played a central role in the ...

The story of Emperor Nero is one of the most infamous in the history of the Roman Empire filled with ambition, excess, and controversy. This video traces Nero’s rise to power, key events of his reign ...

Hazony attributes the First World War, which unfortunately did see an eruption of an expansive form of nationalism on both sides, to a pervasive imperialist spirit. Although undoubtedly true, the ...

A millenniums-old settlement in Michigan has archaeologists rethinking the rise of agriculture on the continent.

The last days of dying empires are dominated by idiots. The Roman, Mayan, French, Habsburg, Ottoman, Romanoff, Iranian and ...

Rye was intensively cultivated in northern Central Europe from the Roman period onward, not merely as a crop for poor soils but as part of a labor-intensive, well-manured agricultural system.

When Odysseus encounters the Cyclops in Book 9 of Homer’s Odyssey, the giant’s first question is: “Who are you, strangers?

The roads built by the Romans in Britain continued to be used for both travel and trade in the Middle Ages for more than a thousand years after the fall of the Roman Empire, according ... in the 11th ...

Ancient sources describe similar techniques for producing raisin wines. Columella, a Roman agricultural writer, noted that ...

The upcoming PC game puts players in the role of a new Roman governor during a relatively peaceful 200-year span. Players start out with a single settlement, but they’ll have to expand and build ...

Has President Donald Trump, like Julius Caesar before him, crossed his Rubicon? Caesar traversed the northern border of the ...