Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the 'Barbarian Conspiracy', a pivotal moment in the history of Roman Britain, a new study reveals. Researchers argue that Picts, Scotti and Saxons ...

A portrait of life at a fast-food restaurant shows that there’s both dignity and drudgery in all kinds of labor.

When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

The Gupta Empire is widely regarded as India’s Golden Age. Although it existed for only about 230 years (from the 3rd century ...

A trio of researchers from Bocconi University, in Italy, the University of Cambridge, in the U.K., and Stanford University, ...

A new study revealed which ancient empire had the greatest inequality, challenging beliefs about Rome and China.

Learn more about how income inequality may increase the potential for political instability and may have led to the collapse of the Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty.

Rome, with a population of around 75 million, had an average income equivalent to about 2.25 times the subsistence minimum — ...

But finding the dead — that is unique for the entire Roman history.” Soldiers in the Roman Empire were typically cremated until the third century. The pit where the bodies were deposited ...

Archaeologists in Vienna, Austria have discovered the remains of around 150 Roman soldiers in a mass grave dating back to the 1st century AD. The soldiers, aged 20-30, appeared to have been killed ...

Double ONE world champion Roman Kryklia said he has no problem shifting between weight classes and intent on continuing to compete in both the light heavyweight and heavyweight divisions.

The Roman Empire absorbed both empires in the first century B.C. Related: 2,800-year-old structure unearthed in Israel was likely used for cultic practices and sacrifice, archaeologists say ...