The fortress stood undisturbed for two millennia.

A flood in Apollosa, Italy, revealed limestone blocks carved with reliefs of battling gladiators that were part of a monument along the Appian Way.

1st century C.E. Roman relief portraying gladiators and lions fighting. Roman gladiators’ fights to the death have inspired morbid fascination for millennia. But for something seemingly so ...

Why does a windswept ridge in the Swiss Alps matter now? Because a newly identified Roman camp high above the valleys of Graubünden turns a dramatic mountain landscape into something more precise: a ...

Bite marks found on a skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery in York have revealed the first archaeological evidence of gladiatorial combat between a human and a lion. Bite marks found on a skeleton ...

University students and archaeologists located an ancient Roman military camp beyond the empire’s northern frontier in the Netherlands. Photo from Constructing the Limes A team of university students ...

Volunteers were baffled recently when they unearthed not one but two ancient shoes at a historic British site. The discoveries were made at Magna, an Ancient Roman fort in Northumberland, in late May.

Researchers suggest that when Roman legions were at the empire's remote northern frontiers, they relied on local craftspeople for equipment repairs. Reading time 2 minutes What would you do if, while ...

A team of university students sifted through chalky dirt in the Netherlands looking for artifacts or other traces of ancient Roman activity. For years, they’d been piecing together the site’s history, ...