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

The Roman Empire was a force unlike any other, shaping the ancient world through innovation, conquest, and culture. This ...

A hoard of Roman coins dating from the Fourth century and covering the reign of nine emperors has been found in northern ...

Edward “Ted” James Champlin, the Cotsen Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, and professor of classics, emeritus, died of ...

Scientists are exploring the role of lead pollution in the decline of the Roman Empire, proposing that chronic lead exposure ...

The new research adds context to a long-standing debate about the role lead pollution and poisoning may have played in the ...

A team of archaeologists recently discovered a hoard of 141 Roman gold coins dating back to around the Fourth Century CE in ...

Using modern evidence of lead pollution and its health effects, the international team calculates that lead exposure in the ...

But in the search for an answer, imagination can run wild. Suggestions have emerged in recent decades that attribute the rise ...

Around 2,000 years ago, before the Roman Empire conquered Great Britain, women were at the very front and center of Iron Age ...

Test your knowledge of the week in news, and take last week’s quiz here. Annie Hill is platforms editor for NBC News based in ...

Silver fueled the rise of the Roman Empire. But the ancient process of mining and extracting silver was also making the air ...