During a recent excavation on the grounds of a mansion in Slovakia, researchers discovered something remarkable: a Roman ...

"Gladiator II" opens with a Roman fleet brutally laying siege to a city ... by AD200 Numidia had been a thoroughly integrated part of the Roman empire for over 250 years. First as part of the ...

The Battle of Actium in 31 BC destroyed three-quarters of the Egyptian fleet. Cleopatra and Marc Antony killed themselves and, finally, the Roman Empire now included the land of the pharaohs.

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 ...

It took two men to wrestle Rome back from chaos and turn a republic into an empire. In the first century BC, Rome was a republic. Power lay in the hands of the Senate, elected by Roman citizens.

In AD 79 Agricola, the Roman governor of Britannia, sent a fleet to survey Scotland's coast ... establishing a frontier for the Empire. Hadrian's successor as emperor, Antoninus Pius, pushed ...

Much of Attila’s infamy comes from his relentless campaign westward into Europe where he pillaged the riches of the Roman Empire. But he was stopped by a confederation of Roman soldiers and ...

A 13-year archeological excavation has shown that what was once believed a backwater town for the Roman Empire lasted far longer than originally believed. Interamna Lirenas was a thriving town ...

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 ...