Built between 104 and 106 AD under Emperor Trajan, the Alcántara Bridge in Spain remains a testament to Roman engineering. With a load-bearing capacity of 52 metric tons, it could theoretically ...

In 122 AD, Roman emperor Hadrian ordered the building of a wall to mark his empire’s British frontier. How long did it take ...

A small glass vial buried nearly two millennia ago is forcing archaeologists to confront an uncomfortable truth about ancient medicine: the Romans may.

Archaeologists analysing a glass vial found in Turkey have discovered the first hard evidence that human faeces was used to ...

2,000-year-old vial containing brown flakes has been found to hold dried human faeces and thyme ...

ANCIENT Romans used human poo to treat common ailments, archaeologists have revealed. The grim discovery is the first direct ...

Archaeologists analyzing a vial from Turkey have found the first physical evidence that ancient civilization used human feces ...

When the emperor Hadrian visited the province of Britannia in A.D. 122, he was in full command of the entire Roman Empire, which stretched some 2,500 miles east from northern Great Britain to ...

Stoicism is one of ancient Greece's most enduring philosophies. Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius is one of its foremost figures.

When you think of Byzantine emperors, you don’t necessarily think of flying thrones, machines and automations, do you?

Our politics are stuck in the ancient past. Thankfully our food isn’t By Finn McRedmond Look, I suppose if you really can’t get your hands on flamingo, parrot will do. And don’t take it from me, but ...

Driving Rome’s “Queen of Roads” revealed beach towns, buried arenas, and new archaeological discoveries mile by mile.