Discover how droughts contributed to the Barbarian Conspiracy invasion and affected Roman control in southern Britain.

Have you ever seen a bunch of coins on a headstone and wondered why they were there? They weren’t placed there by ...

It may be tempting to think of the first coins ... the Roman denarius to the Spanish pieces of eight to those "Sacagawea dollars" the US minted in 2000 - can be traced back to a legendary ancient ...

Pope Francis has been laid to rest after his funeral at the Vatican. A period of mourning follows – then comes the complex ...

Roman baths, and the camel caravans and marketplace bustle befitting the center of an ancient crossroads between east and west. After the Roman Empire annexed the city in the early second century ...

Ancient historians wrote that after crossing the mountain pass, Hannibal’s army spent 15 years marauding through the Italian peninsula. “His men slaughtered 50,000 Roman soldiers at the Battle ...

Here in the silent landscape of his ancient Bedouin forebears ... The Greeks struck coins depicting Zeus with a falcon. One of the earliest Japanese falconers, a woman, wrote a treatise on ...

even in ancient times, came and went. During the first century AD, being clean-shaven was important in Roman culture. While Jesus, as a Jew, probably did grow a beard, it was likely well-maintained ...

The ancient silver coins feature the images of 11 Roman emperors and empresses, including Nero and Marcus Aurelius.

Taylor Swift’s new fascination with ancient coin jewelry shines a spotlight on Roman denarii, historical talismans—and maybe ...

Mangeac had found a hoard of ancient Roman coins — 1,469 silver denarii — buried in a field in Letca Nouă. He said the discovery left him in disbelief. Marius Mangeac found 1,469 coins dating ...