Rocks from Greenland found on Iceland's west coast could link the late Roman Empire's fall to a spell of sudden climate ...

"A sequence of severe summer droughts from 364 to 366 not only contributed to prolonged harvest failures and food shortages, ...

A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the ...

A team of archaeologists has found what they claim to be the skeleton of a gladiator who was bitten by a big cat — the first ...

You don't have to be one of those people who can't go a single day without thinking about the Roman Empire to know about the ...

The ancient silver coins feature the images of 11 Roman emperors and empresses, including Nero and Marcus Aurelius.

Skeletal remains in a Roman burial ground in northern England were found to have lesions that looked suspiciously like bite ...

A skeleton in England may have belonged to a gladiator who died fighting a large cat, possibly a lion, a new study finds.

It's the first-ever evidence of man-lion combat found in the Roman period.

What we think of as the Roman Empire lasted from 27 BCE to 476 AD. But the end of the Roman Empire is way more complicated than that, with some putting the official end at 1453, some at 1806, and some ...