While the Western Empire crumbled, the Eastern Romans built some of the most advanced defenses in the ancient world. This ...

But next time you complain about your journey, spare a thought for the Ancient Romans, whose travel times were significantly longer. At its largest, the Roman Empire ... world in 200 CE. The ...

The parchment scroll, made in the Middle Ages, is the only surviving copy of a road map from the late Roman Empire. The document ... "It's the only map of the ancient world - although it's a copy - ...

It’s one of only four known Roman camps in the Netherlands and was really just a rest stop between larger fortifications.

Roman soldiers typically stayed at temporary camps for a few days or weeks before continuing marching. The Hoog Buurlo camp may have “served as a stopover en route to another camp at Ermelo-Leuvenum, ...

Last week, my wife asked me, “How often do you think about the Roman Empire?” Her question didn ... This wasn’t new for the ancient world: From the days of Akkad to rulers like Rameses ...

Nevertheless, the discovery of the forts’ existence challenges a popular hypothesis established in the 1930s about the role of such fortifications along the ancient Roman Empire’s eastern ...

Switzerland officials said historical records indicate the remains of a Roman wall were excavated in the 1860s, but they had ...

Capable of housing up to 10,000 soldiers, the camp was one of the largest in the ancient Roman empire, the LVR Office for Archaeological Preservation in the Rhineland said in a news release.

Aristos joined Newsweek in 2018 from IBTimes UK and had previously worked at The World Weekly ... of the Roman Empire is challenging traditional assumptions about the ancient civilization's ...