A study of ancient DNA from Europeans between 1700 and 45,000 years ago suggests that 63 percent of them had dark skin.

Scientists have deciphered a 1,900-year-old papyrus describing a court process from the time of the Roman occupation of Israel. The newly translated document reveals fascinating details related to a ...

The Roman Empire grew over a long period of time from basically a political unit in Italy to the entire Mediterranean basin, but it took a lot of time.... It really grew out of a number of ...

The cache included swords, spears, lances and chainmail. Researchers think these items may have been buried as part of a ...

He added that he knew of only one hoard from outside the empire that had more coins from this period — a stash ... that broke away from the Roman Empire during a time of political instability ...

“Forgery and tax fraud carried severe penalties under Roman law, including hard labor or even capital punishment,” Dolganov ...

What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?

The world of the Roman Empire was not just one of legions, emperors, and conquests — it was also a world of legal disputes, financial schemes, and bureaucracy.

It involves women recording interactions with men "in which they ask them how often they think about the Roman Empire or to share the last time they thought about it," Time reported. As most of ...

Archaeologists uncovered a boundary stone, used to mark land borders during the Roman Empire, dated to a period during which the empire was jointly ruled by four emperors. The boundary stone ...

Languages: English, Spanish Archaeologists have uncovered a rare ancient Roman artifact that has revealed previously unknown places lost to time ... the vast Roman Empire. The inscription also ...

This remarkable find sheds light on the administrative practices of the Roman Empire during the reign of Emperor Diocletian ... impacted rural communities in northern Israel. During this period, ...