By the third century A.D., the highway was known as ... as it existed during the Roman Empire. The map's origins were obscure: a 13th-century monk from Colmar had apparently copied it from a ...

By the beginning of the first century AD, Jews had spread from their ... Synagogues were classified as colleges to get around Roman laws banning secret societies and the temples were allowed ...

During the late third century, the Roman Emperor Diocletian divided the vast empire into two halves to make it easier to govern. The Western Roman Empire was ruled from Milan, while the Eastern ...

Suddenly he pulls the van over and gets out, pausing to pack tobacco into his pipe and consult a 1:50,000-scale survey map. Head down ... uncovered a third-century Roman city frozen in time.

Soldiers in the Roman Empire were typically cremated until the third century. The pit where the bodies were deposited suggests a hasty or disorganized dumping of corpses. Every skeleton examined ...

Much of Attila’s infamy comes from his relentless campaign westward into Europe where he pillaged the riches of the Roman Empire ... disastrous reigns in the third century.

Skeleton finds in the European part of the Roman Empire had been rare because cremation was the prevailing custom until the third century CE. Historical sources reported that within decades a ...

A group of Roman re-enactors. The Roman army was the largest fighting force in the ancient world. It conquered a huge empire that stretched ... He was only paid a third of a legionary’s wage.

By Eve Sampson Under a soccer field in a Vienna neighborhood along the Danube, archaeologists have found a mass grave dating to the era when the Roman Empire ... until the third century A.D ...

Begins by using a map to show the first Roman road ... roads over Britain by the end of the first century and shows how the roads were built by Roman soldiers. Students could make their own ...