A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the ...

Gladiator combat is a well-documented aspect of ancient Roman society, but the physical remains of fighters have remained ...

What we think of as the Roman Empire lasted from 27 BCE to 476 AD. But the end of the Roman Empire is way more complicated than that, with some putting the official end at 1453, some at 1806, and some ...

According to a recent study, the Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA), a climate crisis in the 6th century lasting 200 to 300 years, may have contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire ...

The findings center on a single skeleton discovered in a Roman-period cemetery outside York in England, a site believed to ...

Today, AD joins architect Nick Potts in London to uncover the city’s ancient Roman origins. Before London, there was Londinium, the capital of Roman Britain, and although it was abandoned by AD 450, ...

Sir — It seems tax evasion is as old as civilisation itself. A recent paper analyses legal documents from the Roman empire that detail the prosecution of a tax evasion case on papyrus. The case of ...

Google’s $264 billion ad business is now under threat. As the case enters the remedies phase, the company could be forced to divest key ad tech assets like Google Ad Manager. Following last ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humility and concern ...