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Rocks from Greenland found on Iceland's west coast could link the late Roman Empire's fall to a spell of sudden climate change. But historians say that the real story is likely much more complicated.
The Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus (lived circa 330 to 395) claimed in his book "Res Gestae" (Latin for "things done" ...
The first physical evidence of Roman gladiators fighting animals has been found in skeletal remains from England ...
Gladiator combat is a well-documented aspect of ancient Roman society, but the physical remains of fighters have remained ...
For most humans who have breathed Earth's air over the course of history, our deaths have disappeared from record, as ...
Skeletal remains in a Roman burial ground in northern England were found to have lesions that looked suspiciously like bite ...
Archeologists in the UK and Ireland recently uncovered a rare find: the skeletal remains of a gladiator from Roman-era ...
Fabio Portella, a professional diver who has worked with marine archaeologists for years, was surveying the seabed near ...
Hundreds of once-missing artifacts, hunted down over decades by a special Italian police unit, have been unveiled for the ...
The Melsonby Hoard, as it’s called, consists of over 800 artifacts, each from 2,000 years ago. Found near Melsonby, a village ...
The face still presents significant layers of mortar that make full identification difficult, but its features —a carefully sculpted beard and a solemn expression— suggest it could be a Roman deity or ...
Britain's Defense Secretary John Healey, left, Ukraine's Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, second from left, and Germany's Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, right, arrive for a meeting of the ...