Western civilization arose in Greece in the 8th century BC, when some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate 400-year-old Dark Age.

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The British northern frontier was the edge of the Roman world — and a place of violence, boredom and opportunity, experts ...

The Holy Roman Empire, despite the name, was Germanic, but why was it called Roman if it had nothing to do with the Romans?

Excavations of an ancient construction site in Pompeii have revealed the process of how Romans mixed their self-healing concrete.

Western civilization arose in the 8th century B.C. Greece. Some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate 400-year-old Dark Age. That chaos followed the utter collapse of the palatial culture ...

New research into an abandoned construction site in Pompeii has revealed the secrets of Roman cement manufacturing.

For the first time in 2,000 years, a Roman arm guard can be seen in its entirety after a painstaking reconstruction that saw the assembly of dozens of found fragments. The piece of brass armor was ...

New DNA analysis reveals how the rise and fall of the Roman Empire ultimately shifted the population in the Balkans.

Lime granules trapped in ancient walls show Romans relied on a reactive hot-mix method to making concrete that could now ...

An analysis of sewer drains from a Roman fort has shown that the occupants were contaminated with three types of intestinal ...