Researchers have found a Roman brooch in the foundation of an Iron Age house in Scotland, but what was it doing there?

Nearly 2,000 years ago this was the line that divided the Roman Empire from the rest of the world. Here in Germany the low mound is all that’s left of a wall that once stood some ten feet tall ...

The discovery changes the whole timeline of the collapse. A 13-year archeological excavation has shown that what was once ...

The Roman Wall was built on the orders of Emperor Hadrian following his visit to Britain in 122AD and served as the Northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire, separating the conquered Britons from ...

When the Roman Empire began collapsing, Christianity prevailed and the Roman Catholic Church kept its territories together.

The interiors of Roman villas were often lavishly decorated with painted walls and mosaic floors, and examples are found across the Roman Empire including Britain. Brading Roman Villa on the Isle ...

But it wasn’t the legionaries that guarded the wall. This was the job of auxiliary soldiers who came from right across the Roman empire… places like Belgium, Spain, Greece, and even as far ...

Not only is the Berlin Wall a fateful border for Germany ... Expanding the study to other regions influenced by the Roman Empire, like France or Italy, could provide a broader understanding ...

with at least a few related to elites of the Xiongnu Empire Sonja Anderson Created more than a century before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., the wall paintings provide rare insights ...

so it’s likely that it came north of Hadrian’s Wall on the cloak of a Roman soldier tasked with garrisoning the Empire’s ...