Before the Punic Wars, as Rome and Carthage edged towards conflict in the third century BC, the balance of power in the ...

Rome and Persia fought some of the longest, bloodiest wars in ancient history, yet the Roman frontier in the East kept ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient Roman forum from more than 2,000 years ago at the site of an unknown city. A team of researchers made the discovery at the archaeological site La Cabañeta in ...

Hundreds of weapons from the Roman era have been unearthed in a park in a city located in southeastern France. These findings are thought to be remnants of the Battle of Lyon, which occurred on ...

A millennia-old helmet that saw ancient Rome’s first great Mediterranean war was recently unearthed in Italy. The find was announced by the Sicilian regional government in a Sept. 5 announcement. In a ...

The transformation of the Roman Empire into what modern historians call Byzantium was not a single event but a gradual ...

Back in the early days of aerial archaeology, a French Jesuit priest named Antoine Poidebard flew a biplane over the northern Fertile Crescent to conduct one of the first aerial surveys. He documented ...