When the Romans invaded Britain, their army was so good that it took on armies 10 times its size and won! Most soldiers in the Roman Empire came from countries outside Italy. There were soldiers ...

The Roman Empire grew over a long period of time from ... and even underground cisterns that were tremendous, the size of football fields, so that water could be provided to this remote place.

Local inhabitants obeyed Roman rule because the alternative was often too horrible to consider. Even when the Romans were behaving themselves, the very size and wealth of their empire ensured that ...

A precious gem found at Carlisle's Roman Bathhouse has illuminated the intricacies of religion on Rome's northernmost frontier.

Taxes were based on the size of the land, its quality ... renamed Byzantium to Constantinople and changed it from a Greek city to a capital of the Eastern Roman Empire. It was under Constantine that ...

Before our find, we never began to imagine the size of the actual physical ... evidence ever of the Imperial Cult in both fourth-century Italy and the late Roman Empire. “There's evidence from other ...

The city was one of the first in Sicily to join the Roman Empire amid the First Punic War ... for the rich decorative apparatus and for its size.” “Equal to about 800 square meters, [it ...

After playing the new city-builder game Citadelum for just over four hours, I can definitively say that it’s right for a specific kind of person: those who are obsessed with the Roman Empire.

While having four gates on each side of a square town was the standard Roman civic design all over the empire, Trier’s double-tower castle design is also outstanding in its size and complexity. That’s ...

When the Romans invaded Britain, their army was so good that it took on armies 10 times its size and won! Most soldiers in the Roman Empire came from countries outside Italy. There were soldiers ...

Found in a cremation cemetery in Belgium, the skeleton includes bones dating to the Neolithic period and a Roman-era skull ... Despite its unusually small size, the newly unearthed House of ...