A 13-year archeological excavation has shown that what was once believed a backwater town for the Roman Empire lasted far ...

Rare wooden writing tablets uncovered in Tongeren, Belgium, offer insight into law, administration, and literacy in the Roman ...

A rediscovered Roman coin hoard in northern Germany offers new clues about trade, risk, and daily life beyond the Roman ...

Archaeologists think the newly discovered artifacts remained at the production site because they were deemed unusable. Large ...

Belisarius is the much underrated military commander of the Byzantine Empire who helped reclaim huge swathes of the Roman ...

The so called Byzantine Empire never called itself Byzantine. Long after the fall of Rome in the West its people still believed they were Romans heirs of Caesar and Augustus. This video shows how war ...

The potato reshaped Europe by driving population growth food security and economic change. This video explores a fascinating counterfactual question what might have happened if this New World crop had ...

The expansion of one of the Mediterranean’s strongest powers wasn’t only driven by conquest, but also infrastructure. By ...

A number of Roman wills reveal people leaving their heirs silver and gold in the form of bars, plates or ingots. Aside from ...

At the height of its power, the Roman Empire extended as far away as Britain. Rome didn’t view the region as remote or ...

Yet Trimalchio was mistaken. He had not reckoned with Kim Bowes, professor of ancient history and archaeology at the ...

Dan is joined by author, broadcaster and historian Professor Alice Roberts to examine how Christianity out-organised and ...