Two Mithraic Roman altars are to be displayed as a part of an upcoming exhibition after being acquired for the nation.

Excavated at Inveresk in East Lothian, the altars date to around 140AD, a period when southern Scotland was reoccupied under Antoninus Pius. Curators believe they offer fresh insights into the beliefs ...

The Roman Empire was on the road to collapse, never to recover again. But what if all of this never happened? What would the ...

A Norwegian archaeologist believes that the Norwegians were on their way to the Roman Empire as mercenaries around the year ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Turns out that many men think about the Roman Empire a lot. But why? (Yahoo News/Ernesto Ruscio/Getty Images) How often do you ...

Ancient Rome didn’t abandon its gods overnight. The rise of Christianity was a slow transformation of the cult-based religious order that had structured Roman life for centuries ...

The fall of the Western Roman Empire was not a single event but a chain reaction. Key battles such as Adrianople, the Frigidus River, the Catalonian Plains, and Cape Bon drained manpower, morale, and ...

Ancient Rome’s reputation for bad emperors partly rests on hostile sources written after the fact – and Domitian may be the ...

Roman Philosophy Machiavelli’s Roman Empire Sam Spound explains why the author of The Prince thought about Rome so much. In ...

For the first time in 2,000 years, a Roman arm guard can be seen in its entirety after a painstaking reconstruction that saw the assembly of dozens of found fragments. The piece of brass armor was ...

A Roman stone board game has been unplayable since its discovery more than a century ago, but AI might have just worked out ...

If he’s distracted and daydreaming — chances are, he’s not cheating on you. He just might be thinking about the Roman Empire. Leave it to the internet to unexpectedly hard launch a new fixation, but I ...