Bodies, potentially decaying, were a more common sight in ancient Rome than now. Suetonius, writing in the first century CE, ...

While excavating at Hradisko Hill in South Moravia, Czech Republic, archaeologists recently unearthed an 1,800-year-old ...

Perched on a hill overlooking the town of Alès, the site, which was salvaged before construction on modern houses began, also ...

Bones found at the site of an ancient fish-processing plant were used to genetically identify the species that went into a ...

Archaeologists uncovered the remains of an enormous 5,000-year-old hilltop fortress, known today as Cortijo Lobato.

Life in a Roman legion was nasty, brutish and, providing a legionary survived his 25-year enlistment, a long march to citizenship and wealth. “Legion,” now at the British Museum, is a superb ...

Dozens of ancient clay bricks with imprints of the 10th Roman Legion – which destroyed Jerusalem two millennia ago – were seized recently by Jerusalem detectives from a car on the road to ...

Archaeologists found a 2,000-year-old Roman camp 7,000 feet up in the Swiss Alps, with sling bullets from the Roman 3rd Legion.

These lovers of Roman antiquity are based in Autun, a French town that boasts some fine remains from this era and organizes annual Roman Days. The Legion VIII website is packed with images and video ...

More than 30,000 ancient coins found off the coast of Italy 00:50. A British man who found a massive cache of ancient Roman gold and silver coins while hunting with a metal detector has a lot more ...