A Mass Grave of the Roman Empire Is Found Under a Vienna Soccer Field
Archaeologists found the remains of at least 129 people, many of them bearing the injuries of battle, dating to when Rome battled Germanic people nearly 2,000 years ago.
Roman mass grave discovered on Vienna outskirts reveals 150 soldiers from first-century battle
"The mass grave in Simmering is the first physical evidence of combat actions from this time and points to the localization ...
UNESCO6 年
Frontiers of the Roman Empire
2012 Frontiers of the Roman Empire: Hadrian's Wall. Map 1: Skinburness (north ... of the World Heritage Committee or of the Secretariat of UNESCO concerning the history or legal status of any country, ...
The sun has literally set on the British Empire
The sun never sets on the British empire.” Variations on the phrase have been used for more than 200 years to describe the ...
PBS2 年
Jews and the Roman Empire
The Roman Empire grew over a long period of time from ... the area now thought of as the Golan Heights, and a good stretch of territory over in that direction. The third son, Archelaeus, took ...
THE WEEK1 年
Why the Roman Empire is suddenly everywhere online
More than 1,500 years after its collapse in A.D. 476, the Roman Empire has seen a resurgence in the unlikeliest of settings — social media. Online users, predominantly on the video-sharing app ...
BBC1 年
Life in the Roman Empire
They had jobs such as: Historians estimate that up to 10 per cent of the population of the Roman Empire were enslaved people. They had no legal rights in ancient Rome and they were considered to ...
BBC2 年
What was life like in the Roman army?
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 from Britain all the way to the Middle East. The ...
National Geographic news8 年
Emperor Hadrian Brings the World to Rome
This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. The emperor Hadrian was well known for building monuments across the Roman Empire, a territory that ...
Smithsonian Magazine10 年
Via Aurelia: The Roman Empire’s Lost Highway
Tassan was showing me a milliaire, or milestone, one of hundreds planted along the highways of Gaul at the time of the Roman Empire ... a vast stretch of untamed territory lying between Rome ...
National Geographic news4 年
Rome Halts the Huns
The Roman Empire is divided into two parts ... They quickly expanded their territory with lightning-fast cavalry and accurate archers, inspiring fear wherever they went. At its height, the ...
ExplorersWeb on MSN7 天
Archivists Discover New Stories About King Arthur Hidden in Ancient Book Binding
In medieval novels, Merlin the Magician was far stranger than he appears in modern pop culture. Archivists have discovered ...