Jean-Paul Laurens' painting of Honorius Flavius captures the fragility of power in the Roman Empire's decline.

The Roman Empire was created and controlled by its soldiers. At the core of the army were its legions, which were without equal in their training, discipline and fighting ability. By the time ...

Excavations at the site continued, but it wasn’t until six years later that the lost head was discovered. One year into the Future Heritage Project, archaeologists discovered th ...

A life-sized statue has been discovered in Pompeii of an ancient Roman woman thought to have been a priestess in a fertility cult. The statue decorated the façade of a monumental tomb dedicated ...

Crews starting work on a gas line in Bulgaria uncovered a late Roman-era settlement. The timing of abandonment implies that the settlement’s residents were driven out by a barbarian raid ...

In Roman religion, she was symbolically connected to the moon, as its phases were thought to correspond with harvests, which could explain the female statue’s lunula pendant, per the journal.

A philosopher, writer, orator and statesman, Seneca (4 BC – 65 AD) was Rome's leading intellectual during the middle of the first century AD. Brought back from exile, he and his friends would ...

Around 2,500 years ago, the city of Rome was at the centre of a huge empire that stretched ... Image caption, A statue of Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom. They also borrowed new gods from ...