The Roman emperors were once the most famous people in the world, ruling over an empire that stretched between what are now ...

A newly translated papyrus found in Israel provides information about criminal cases and slave ownership in the Roman Empire.

Recently, a papyrus was unearthed from the collections of the Israel Antiquities Authority. It offers rare insights into ...

Archaeologists in Luxembourg have unearthed a stash of Roman gold coins dating back some 1,600 years. The coins are marked ...

The Roman Empire grew over a long period of time from ... This is the person we know as Herod the Great. For the ordinary people of the Jewish homeland, Rome was a kind of dominant political ...

The mantra of 'detach to protect' often misses a critical point: avoiding emotions doesn’t make them disappear.

They had jobs such as: Historians estimate that up to 10 per cent of the population of the Roman Empire were enslaved people. They had no legal rights in ancient Rome and they were considered to ...

People living during the golden age of the Roman Empire experienced an average 2.5 to 3 point reduction in IQ due to atmospheric lead, according to a study published January 6 in the journal ...

The Roman Empire is divided into two parts ... These men often found themselves defending the frontier against their own people. Although order was restored by the accession of Diocletian in ...