Before the Punic Wars, as Rome and Carthage edged towards conflict in the third century BC, the balance of power in the ...

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

The Roman-era poison maker Locusta allegedly played a part in the deaths of Emperor Claudius and his son Britannicus. What do we know about her life story?

Scientists at U.K.-based DeepMind, the Google LLC laboratory that specializes in advanced artificial intelligence, have developed a solution to decipher ancient Roman texts that are often damaged and ...

IF YOU WANTED to read an ancient Roman scroll, you might reach for a dictionary, and perhaps a magnifying glass. You would probably not think of using a particle accelerator. But that is what is ...

The Roman Empire is one of the most famous empires in history, which at one point was basically the world's first superpower with how much of the world it encompassed. It has been a fascinating ...