The discovery changes the whole timeline of the collapse. A 13-year archeological excavation has shown that what was once believed a backwater town for the Roman Empire lasted far longer than ...

What was life like in ancient Rome? Find out how Rome began, learn about different Roman emperors and discover what people in Rome did for fun. What was life like in the Roman army? Learn about ...

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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have helped uncover one of the "largest and most important" Iron Age finds in the UK. The Melsonby Hoard was ...

Hadrian’s Villa’s size, opulence ... Later emperors made use of the villa as a kind of Roman “Camp David,” but the decline of the empire left it vulnerable to looters.