Historians have deciphered a 1,900-year-old papyrus discovered in the Judean desert that details an elaborate tax evasion ...

The way the Roman Empire developed, was gradually to take over more and more territories in the eastern Mediterranean. Some of these were governed as provinces. You can imagine the Roman Empire ...

Along this paved and finely graded route, Rome maintained its control over far-flung provinces ... greatly improved overland travel in the empire. Roman legions could shuttle long distances ...

Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the "Barbarian Conspiracy," a pivotal moment in the history of Roman ...

Imperial provinces were far away from Rome and so ... This opened up trading opportunities between the Roman Empire and Britain to increase the wealth of the empire. Although he hadn’t conquered ...

A manuscript discovered in the Judean desert contains trial notes on an intricate tax-evasion scheme that involved forgery, ...

AMMAN — The Roman Empire in the Middle East recruited so-called “dromedarii”, who were camel-riding soldiers in the desert provinces of the empire to replace classical cavalry. In this harsh ...